Hi Jai !
I'm not sure, but isn't you a bit over-critical here ?

Jai Dhar wrote :

> I think 'fun' has officially exited the picture :-) I have wasted so much
> time killing myself over bugs

Hardware bugs ? That was not in the errata sheet ?
As an summing up, a short list of these bugs that your are
thinking of would be informative.

> now that I no longer see PIC's as fun :-) heh,
> I'm just being difficult though. I should have known better than thinking
> hardware was perfect - it's just a shame because I can't be confident in my
> produced work anymore. I can't sit back and be confident that I did a good
> job now, because I'm not certain if it will work on any PIC out there.

"Any PIC" ?
You built your product using a *specific* PIC, not ?
(Or as specific *series* of PICs maybe)

> Throw a different revision of the same chip in the mix, and everything
> gets thrown off.

"everything" ? Realy ?

Jan-Erik.

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