Since space is a serious issue on my apps, I don't use one.  All I have is a 
schottky diode from Vdd to the MCLR pin, so I can use ICSP.  This is over 
some hundreds of instances of the circuit using the 16F872 or 16F877.

Cheers,
-Neil.


On Thursday 01 June 2006 17:21, Barry Gershenfeld wrote:
> There's a long-standing tradition of using a little three-terminal reset
> generator to make sure the PIC starts up properly.  I suspect there was
> some trouble with this many years ago and we just kept up the
> practice.   So what I'm asking today is if we all trust the PIC internal
> reset circuit to work reliably, every time.    Expected answers will be
> 'yes', 'no', and 'it depends'.    To help with the 'it depends' part,
> consider that we're using a "real" power supply, such as some off the shelf
> thing or maybe the one inside a PC.   As opposed to something homebrew, or
> something slowly ramping like solar power or a string of potatoes.
>
> Thanks...
> Barry
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