On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, Ramana B.V wrote:

> Hi Brent,
> Thanks.
> I have 2 devices on board
>
> Device 1 : can be fed with a crystal or external clock. Can be 2,4,8 Mhz.
>
> Device 2 (PIC) : Since I am going to use the UART fucntion I will need to
> have reasonably accurate and stable clock preferably at around 16 to 20 mhz
> mainly for good baud rate setting at a high rate.
>
  with 10 Mhz you may have 57600 baud, with 20 MHz you could have 115200
or more. Do you need more than 19200 ? If you don't then you could use 4
MHz clock for both devices.

Vasile

> I need a way to avoid one of the crystals. Hope this is clear
> thanks

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