On Sun, 10 Mar 2002 14:47:14 +0100, you wrote:

>On a 16F872, and 16F84 for that matter, I've gathered that MCLR
>should be connected to Vdd during normal operation.  However,
>some circuits I run across show this going thru a 1K or other
>resistor.  Why is this?  (I expect that there is a good reason for
>adding another component).
>
>Makes ICSP possible?
Yes.
Also allows reset to be asserted for testing/debugging

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