At 06:36 AM 11/1/2005 -0800, you wrote:
>Well...from what I know...and been told by the factory....the analog
>inputs do NOT have the clamping function, so driving in past the reference
>can possible damage the input to the PIC.  In fact....I've seen it....

Do you think the protection diodes (the one to Vss is a parasitic diode
due to the isolation diffusion) somehow disappear when you change the
relevant SFR to make a digital input analog?

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