> Which reminds me of something I thought of the other day.
>
> The datasheet tells me that the max clock speed is (usually) 20MHz for
> my 16F-chips. What would happen if I, say, put a 100MHz clock to the
> PIC? Crapped up timing (as if the PIC was on drugs), or core meltdown
> due high currents (or similiar)?
>   
A clock thats too fast can damage a chip by increasing its power 
consumption. With what you propose anything synchronised to the main 
clock will increase in power consumption by a factor of almost 5. I 
don't know if this will produce enough heat to actually damage the chip 
but its certainly a possibility.


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