Brendan Moran <PICLIST@mitvma.mit.edu> wrote:

> if you want to clear *all* the RAM, wouldn't a quick/easy way of
> doing it be to tie one pin to MCLR to force a processor reset, but
> at the same time, store the current address of the PC to EEPROM
> before doing the reset, and have a startup routine that reloads the
> PC to the value in the EEPROM?

    Wow.

    Where's the candle burning through the string, the spring-loaded
    trapdoor through which the ball drops, the sprinkling can that
    tips over and fills the boot with water, etc.?

    -Andy

    P.S.  By the way, a processor reset doesn't clear the data RAM.

=== Andrew Warren -- aiw@cypress.com
=== Principal Design Engineer
=== Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
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