Alan B. Pearce wrote:
>>> And yes, adding resistors between the micro and the real world is always
> a
>>> good idea, up to the point where the resistor begins to interfere with
>>> getting the job done.
>> Even between two micros on the same board?  Two more components to
>> assemble, two more points of failure?
> 
> Well, of course the trick here is to put the pads so that by rotating an SMD
> 0 ohm resistor 90 degrees, it swaps the pin connections for you ... or you
> could make the pads so that they are those little arrow ones where solder is
> enough to bridge the gap - ideal for configuration "switches" where you
> don't want to put an actual DIL switch.

That makes sense to me - particularly if I want to change from asynch to 
synchronous.
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Timothy J. Weber
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