> For several years, one client had need for a 28Mhz PIC (14.31818 x 2 )
> for
> a video retrace job. I set up a test jig so he could cull the PICs that
> couldn't pass muster.

Did you also run it accross the full temperature range the customer's
product was specified at?  Did you test every instruction?  Every
peripheral in every mode it could fail in?

> After a few weeks he dropped the test. None ever
> failed. Thats about 40% overspeed.

Why not just use a 17 family PIC?  Some of those are meant to run at 30MHz
and they have been around for a long time.


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