> -----Original Message-----
> From: Olin Lathrop [SMTP:olin_piclist@EMBEDINC.COM]
> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 1:03 PM
> To:   PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject:      Re: [PIC]: Overlocking PICs?
>
> > 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.
>
Way overpriced and no flash parts are two reasons that immediately spring to
mind.

Mike


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