Hi Jan-Erik,

Jan-Erik Soderholm XA (TN/PAC) wrote:
>>Coincidence or not, only an hour after I wrote this today I
>>received a sample 16F767. Its deviceID reads as 0x0EA1.
>>According to the programming specifications (ds30492a.pdf)
>>and the errata (ds80177a.pdf) this is an 16F777!!
>>But it really is 28 pins DIP....
>
>
>
> Hi I'm not "into" programmers, I'd just like to understand...
> What is the difference, from the programmers point of view,
> between programming a 28pin device and a 40pin device ?
> If everything else is the same.

Doesn't make a difference for a PIC programmer (at least not for mine,
the Wisp628).

> As far as I can see from the line card the 16F767 and 777 have
> the same amount of flash, no eeprom and so on.

True.

So for a PIC programmer it may not be a problem if a 16F767 and 16F777
would use the same ID. The reason that I mentioned the 28-pins DIP
package was to say that I'm sure it is _not_ a 16F777 (I didn't mention
it, but it has also 16F767 printed on the body!).

I reported a documentation error to MicroChip.

Regards, Rob.


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