> >I would like to hear what other PIClisters use to protect their designs.


I have seen DIP chips with their legs bent UP instead of DOWN and then
mounted as usual and therefore "upside down". Makes for a very strange
pinout and with power supply on pins 1 and N/2+1 for standard logic parts.
Slows down the honest folk.

Obviously something I wouldn't recommend :-) .Mounting ICs bent as above on
the bottom of the PCB still through-hole yields standard pinouts. This
method can also be used to resolve the disaster that occurs when somebody
gets the copper side wrong in a PCB run and a mirror image PCB results -
I've seen it done in a commercial product ! :-)



RM

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