yes it is a 18F device, thanks for the heads up on the RESET instruction.


--- On Thu, 11/6/08, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm@telia.com> wrote:

> From: Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm@telia.com>
> Subject: Re: [PIC] Bootloader question - auto reset?
> To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." <piclist@mit.edu>
> Date: Thursday, November 6, 2008, 12:57 AM
> Harold Hallikainen wrote:
> >> I'm in the process of defining what has to
> occur during a bootload
> >> operation, at a high level.
> >>
> >> The actual code delivery will be from another PIC
> that talks to the target
> >> over a serial connection.  So the code essentially
> passes from a host on
> >> one serial port, and then to the target.
> >>
> >> When its 'done'...I'm guessing that
> the final command can be...goto 0x000
> >> for a soft reset.  Reasonable?
> >>
> > 
> > That should work. If you have the WDT enabled, you
> could also go into an
> > infinite loop and let it time out. That would put all
> SFRs back at their
> > power up values (I think), where a goto 0 would not.
> 
> The RESET instruction on PIC18 will get all SFRs back to
> the POR
> state. I guess the same is true for the new RESET
> instruction
> on the new PIC161xxx...
> 
> Jan-Erik.
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