> The 16F688 is indeed a wonderful device. I used it in many projects and it
> indeed has most of the features you would want. It also works really well
> together with the PicKit 2: it fits on the included demo board, is well
> recognized, and can access all of its peripherals. The only "gotcha" I found
> is that the internal oscillator isn't really accurate enough to use the
> UART. Often I had to change the value 1 up or down compared to the
> documentation to make it work, despite using baud rates that had a low error
> according to that documentation.

Interesting.  I've never used it with an external oscillator and used 
its UART with a number of other chips, and never had a problem.  Always 
at 9600 baud, I think - maybe that has something to do with it.
-- 
Timothy J. Weber
http://timothyweber.org
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