It does take code space but the only safe way is to initialize everthing present as step one in your startup code. John Ferrell 6241 Phillippi Rd Julian NC 27283 Phone: (336)685-9606 johnferrell@earthlink.net http://DixieNC.US NSRCA 479 AMA 4190 W8CCW "My Competition is Not My Enemy" ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Chops Westfield" To: Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 3:54 AM Subject: [PIC:] pin function defaults... > speaking of the f84 being easier to use cause it's simpler: > > Is there a table somewhere that lists, for each PIC, the > default (power-up) usage of each pin? This doesn't seem > to be very obvious from the data sheets (or I'm missing > something - it took me an embarassingly long time to figure > out which peripheral was interfering with using some of > the GPIO pins on a 16F675 as outputs (the data sheet is > pretty clear when you have to turn off a peripheral or > change tris to switch between digital and analog inputs, > but it's not so clear which special functions interfere > with digital output...) > > Thanks > Bill W > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: > [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads