Isaac Marino Bavaresco wrote:
> I had an event where the WDT didn't help. After a surge, something
> latched-up inside the PIC and not even the WDT could fix. The chip
> heated a little, but after power down and some time to cool, it worked
> OK. Of course we replaced the chip anyway.

Sounds like it could have been a glitch on Vdd so that momemtarily some pins
were more than a diode drop above Vdd, which caused the chip to become a
SCR.


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