At 07:17 AM 2/9/02 +1100, Wesley Moore wrote:
>Hi All,
>I was hoping you might be able to help me. I have a project that is using a
>PIC16LF876. It is intended to run on 3.3V but I can't get it to do so. It
>runs fine at 5V. The problem seems to be the oscillator, I have looked at the
>OSC pins with a CRO and it doesn't appear to be oscillating when powered
>from 3.3V. I have tried a 4Mhz resonator and a 4Mhz crystal with the
>associated capacitors of various values from 10pF to 22pF and also tried
>adding a resistor like it says in the reference manual. I have the config
>set to the XT mode. Does anyone have any tips for making the thing
>oscillate at 3.3V?

Try HS mode.

dwayne



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