> -----Original Message-----
> From: Olin Lathrop [SMTP:olin_piclist@EMBEDINC.COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 2:25 PM
> To:   PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject:      Re: [PIC]: brain teaser
>
> > Indeed.  I ignored these as this was a "best case" scenario.  A "bit
> > reverser" would be trivial to implement in silicon, I wonder if MChip
> > have
> > ever considered including one as this topic has come up quite a few
> > times.
>
> A few times as a brain challange, but I don't remember a single serious
> case.  In dozens of PIC projects I only remember needing to do this once.
> No, I'd rather not have Microchip waste $$ on this problem.
>
An application that I have used was interfacing to a non standard SPI-like
bus that transmitted data LSB first.  I can't imagine that this would
increase silicon cost, although it would use one or maybe two SFR addresses.

Mike



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