On Mon, 06 Nov 2006 11:28:42 +0000, you wrote:

>Has anyone had any problems (other than the 'clock must be in idle state when SPI enabled' issue
>mentioned in the errate) with SPI slave mode on the 16F devices (16F818 in particular)?
>
>I'm seeing very occasional random data errors when the slave sends data,  consistent with either new
>data not getting latched into sspbuf, or SSPIF getting set too early - It is quite probably my bug,
>and I'm still delving into the problem to narrow it down, but what makes me suspicious of a possible
>silicon issue is that it only manifests itself on the chip, not ICE2000.
> 

Panic over - I did something stupid a while ago that only just manifested itself.
It usually helps if you load sspbuf _before_  you tell the host to start clocking it out...!
Don't quite understand why it behaved differently to the ICE but fixed now so don't really care... 

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