Well I still do not know the real purpose of BRA or Do I Even need to use BRA at all? Don't you need BRA after "skip" style instructions? otherwise your PC would end up pointing to a word containing a jump destination address. That might be OK for current parts, but certainly not as program space expands to 64k words... BillW -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads