>> 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

I can see you have been looking at too many books by Heath Robinson :))


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

I hadn't checked, but did wonder when I saw the post, if this really did
happen, seeing as it is not implemented in other processors, and besides
which, is there a brownout or watchdog timer, and if so would these cause
the ram to be cleared??? I would hope not.

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