Lawrence,

there are application where you can't have a BOR operating reliably. Not
all products have power cords or batteries and a BOR can add parts to a
minimal design. A BOR is more expensive than $0.25 in small qty. and it is
not snake oil. You have to trust someone after all. A proper
regulator/reset chip is the 'right' solution imho., for a smaller real
estate on the board than the BOR (even in SMD). Maybe in consumer
equipment you can go with a BOR, after all you do not solder them
yourself, you outsource.

In most PICs the watchdog timer continues to work a long time after the
voltage is below anything that makes the cpu work right. This and the
repeated resets it produces act almost like a BOR for me. I can also turn
up the voltage in 10 mV/sec increments and nothing bad happens because I
write my code with such things in mind.

I am not trying to say a BOR is not required I am trying to say that for
me the test code method works all the time.

Peter

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