Olin Lathrop wrote...

>Dave Dilatush wrote:
[snip]
>
>> but overall it looks like the
>> dsPIC30F3013 can be expected to draw roughly two and a half to
>> three times the operating current as a PIC18F242 operated at the
>> same clock frequency.
>
>For the single measured case.  I'm not trying to minimize what you did, but
>it's important to note the your data is interesting and a useful guide, but
>that there is no substitute for the specified maximum currents when
>designing a circuit.  (I know you know this, but I want to make sure others
>watching this look at it with the proper perspective.)

Agreed.  There's also no substitute for a data sheet containing
real numbers instead of long columns of nothing but "TBD", which
is all I've seen so far on the 30F3013.

Maybe MChip will grace us with some hard numbers "real soon
now"...

DD
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