I'd say that most of the time at least one JW is really useful to have
around- there are things like power consumption and noise that you
can't effectively test on an ICE. Microchip's JWs are a bit pricy but
I wouldn't be without one - if you take care of them they last almost
forever, and you don't have the problem of running out of OTPs just as
you're on a tight deadline, trying to find out where that few hundred
microamps of SLEEP mode power is leaking to....=20
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On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 11:49:10 -0500, you wrote:

>At 07:20 AM 11/20/02 -0500, you wrote:
>> > 12c508 is "one shot one kill" and i burned out 2 micros
>>
>>That's why the make the JW package version.  There are UV eraseable.
>
>I could argue convincingly that if you have a good ICE, the
>UV erasables are not required, it's easier to throw a few $1 plastic
>12C508s away than to worry about whether the chip is still okay.
>
>Did development for years for Moto MC68HC705xx with no erasables,
>and wasted maybe a rail or two total (10 or 15 chips).
>Utterly negligible cost, and I never had to worry about whether the
>part was still okay or whether the pin count had been decremented since
>the last test.
>
>Best regards,
>
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reward"
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