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Michael Rigby-Jones wrote:
> I make that 6 cycles + a couple for initial bank setting if we are being
> fussy.
>
> How about sending an 8 bit value out on two pins, SPI style?  They reckon
> the PIC takes 296 cycles to do this!


When I skimmed the sheet I came away with the impression that they were
pulling a fast one - since their chip did 1-clock per instruction, they
were counting clock cycles.  Since the PIC takes 4 clocks per instruction,
they were taking the PIC instruction counts and multiplying by 4.

6 instruction cycles + a couple of bcf/bsf/BANKSELs = 8-10 icycles
10 icycles * 4 clocks = 40 clock cycles.

scum-marketing at its worst.

   -John

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