I just stumbled across a method to read out PIC code in any PIC that uses the XNOR/XOR scrambled readback method when the PIC is protected. It is here: http://www.net.yu/~dejan/ I know that more recent PICs read out as zeros when protected. I hope that you out there who rely on PIC data protection know this. Peter PS: Apologies if you already know this. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads