On 5/9/05, Denny Esterline wrote: > While I don't disagree with you, one should qualify what is a "high speed" > application. For a PIC the crystal (or resonator, or RC osc, or whatever) is > operating at 20MHz MAX, but any of the I/O lines will be *much* slower than > that. In such case, I doubt the angle of the trace would matter much. > > I'd be much more concerned with the long, skinny, meandering ground trace, > lack of suitable bypass near the PIC, all the analog inputs shorted to Vdd, > large reservoir cap on the regulator output without a protection diode and > the dangerous battery connection. But maybe that's just me :-) :) I just enjoy it when people engineer their PIC layouts like they're building a 3GHz motherboard. Regards, Mark markrages@gmail -- You think that it is a secret, but it never has been one. - fortune cookie -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist