At 11:16 AM 10/30/2003 -0700, Dal Wheeler wrote:

>But, from what I gathered, the problem does not have a hard problem
>threshold at 4mhz.  I could see a situation where someone chose a frequency
>a bit higher and not seen problems in "normal" testing only to get burned
>later.  I'm sure no one here ships anything without *extensive* testing.
>;')

Does Mchip now state a new maximum speed for the devices?
If so, then you ought to be able to rely on it absolutely.
Of course that's how you got here in the first place..

Still, their testing is going to be far more definitive than anything an end user can do.  Simply clocking it up till it fails might be indicative of a particular chip, but you wouldn't know anything useful about the next chip, or the next production batch.

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