At 10:12 PM 6/22/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>> Lots easier to just get the right crystal...
>
>True. However with the halfway decently specified tolerances on the
>internal nanowatt (tm?) oscillators in the newer PICs it would be useful
>to be able to run the part at 8 Mhz, use the hardware USART, and recover the
>two I/O pins that the crystal would require.
>
>Just a thought.
>
>BAJ

A very good one, Byron.

One should read the specs carefully and see what can be done with the part
as is. And if it works, then it's "good enough".  The new pics are getting
better in this regard - and with a proliferation of 8 pin and 6 pin sot
parts, not having to use a crystal/resonator is a good thing.

Tom

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