Take a look at this chapter on the free book from MikroElektronika (especiall the note on MCLR on the bottom): http://www.mikroe.com/en/books/picmcubook/ch8/ Also take a look at some examples in the same book (especially the Example 1): http://www.mikroe.com/en/books/picmcubook/appb/ Note that I'd put that 100nF in betveen Vcc and Vss, and as many of this list already told you it is a good practise to put that decoupler capacitor to every one of each controller, memory or other main components on your board. Oh, btw: Make sure that the decoupler is a ceramic or any other low ESR one - a random capacitor may not do the trick. A component has many parameters, not just the main one and sometimes have to take that into account other parameters as well. That is because the components are phisical elements with obeying the law of phisics. That includes many things like the parameters are changing by temperature, humidity or even by time. And because of that most of the times you need to make compromise when you desing a circuit. I'd say it is the opposite as what a software engineer is seeing day by day. Tamas PS: It is a good idea I think to read that book from the beginning to the end. On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 8:47 AM, solarwind wrote: > Updated: > > http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/3056/screenshotus2.png > > Forgot to add capacitor. It's some random small capacitor. Looks like > it's ceramic but it might not be. Markins on the thing are hard to > see. > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > -- Rudonix DoubleSaver http://www.rudonix.com -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist