Ken Ouellette wrote:
> hello, 
>
> I just bought the easyProg board from
> http://www.embedinc.com/easyprog/ 
> I bought the PCB board from thm and ordered the parts
> form digikey but I had many parts here. 
> The circuit voltage seems to corespond to the data
> sheets of embedinc. 
> My problem is the oscillation, I and no 20Mhz
> oscillation. I took the chip  Pic16F648 and put itin a
> bread board with a 20Mhz crystal, capacitor and I
> still dont get any oscillation. 
> 1- Do I need to program that chip? 
> 2- Is oscillation from that Pic necessesary to burn a
> chip ? 
>
> thank you
>
> Ken
>
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It won't oscillate until the F648 is programmed. That's because until 
the device is programmed,
it doesn't know what kind of oscillator is needed.

--Bob
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