Oh, you all can't be serious! It took me all of 60 seconds to find this on Microchip's site: http://www.microchip.com/1010/overview/qualreli/relidata/index.htm Would nothing there be helpful? Dale -- Hallo, this is Linus Torvalds and I pronounce Linux as Leennuks. Hallo, this is Bill Gates and I pronounce 'crap' as 'Windows'. On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Gerhard Fiedler wrote: > At 13:37 11/05/2001 -0800, Dave King wrote: > >Does anyone know what the mtbf rating is for any of the pics? > >I've rummaged around the Microchip site but couldn't find a > >mtbf number. > > > >[...] > >I'm curious to see which way everyone would go with this. The main > >criteria are reliability and production cost. And each way has its merits. > > Interesting question -- unluckily I don't have a clue about mtbf numbers > for PICs. My guess would be though that the discrete logic is way more > reliable. It also seems that production cost is not higher -- leaving the > lower flexibility as sole disadvantage. If your main criteria are > reliability and production cost, I'd probably go with discrete logic. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.