>Well, that is two of you (you and Olin) who are kind of
>down on the project.  :-(  Since I have a lot of respect
>for the opinions of you two, then most likely you are
>right and I am wasting my time.

Not necessarily. I suspect the problem is that Olin did not explain himself
too well, and you have a certain amount of hump with him, as IIRC you have
run-ins with him before.

I believe Olin was attempting to point out that if you take earlier family
pairs of chips where there is a 40 pin and a 28 pin in the same family, such
as 16F877/16F876 and 18F452/18F252 then the 28 pin chip will match the pin
out of the 40 pin chip reasonably well at some specific pin displacement.

Not only that but these two chip pairs have what Microchip has regarded as a
"standard pinout footprint" (or words to similar effect) such that it is
easy to upgrade to a higher performance chip. Unfortunately they have not
gone down the same route with the dsPic family, so attempting to do the pin
conversion you want is not as easy as with earlier chip families, which
means you will need to have a lot of jumper wires on your piggy back socket
to make everything connect how you need it too.

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