Lance Allen wrote:
>Bob Ammerman wrote:
>
>> Here's a question/contest:
>>
>> who has built the system containing the most PICs?
>>
>> I suppose we'll need a few categories:
>>
>> Most PICs on one board
>>
>> Most PICs in one box
>>
>> Most PICs in one room
>>
>> Most PICs interconnected worldwide via any medium
>>
>
>I am sure this will be puny my many standards but my record is 3 on one
board, a
>16C74, 16F84 and 16C54 all used to control a powerful stepping motor in
very fine
>increments of speed.. a sort of DDS, drive a 9 digit LED display, read an
encoder
>and various other inputs. It worked well too.
>Now I would use an (stone the heretic!) Atmel FPslic combined FPGA and AVR core
>since I now have access to all the development gear for such beasts at my
new job.
>


Hmmm, this is just the latest weird thought from the weird
land somewhere over the rainbow - ie, Boulder, where Dorothy
landed after leaving Kansas:

People keep wanting to run a PIC off 2 different clocks. So
how's about 2 PICs, wired with all pins exactly connected in
parallel, except /MCLR and OSC. One goes 20 Mhz, the other
32Khz. When one is going, the other is held in reset /MCLR=low
[and all pins float]. Exact interplay details to be worked
out. To be called the "2DoNothing" or "pushmepullyou" circuit,
or something or other.

So how much mA does a PIC draw when held in reset, anyways?
Powerdown current = 1.5 uA ??????

- danM

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