> can trigger the suicide SCR (tm) and the chip will rapidly
> self-destruct (melting of bonding wires or whatever). I believe
> this is the situation that Microchip is alluding to

A technical manual should do more than "allude" IMHO

I note that descriptions of Mclr on the F87x and F628 say
that the pin has a noise filter (although the block diagram
of the reset circuitry is the same for the 84/87x/628), which
increases the time for a valid Mclr from 1us (F84) to 2us.

Has the Mclr problem now been addressed then or is the
filter not enough ? If a resistor is considered mandatory
then couldn't it be added to the die ?

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