Kerry Wentworth wrote:
> I had a customer that ordered 6 PICs as samples from MicroChip, and
> not one of them would oscillate at 20MHz.

Really?  My immediate suspicion is the crystal circuit wasn't properly
designed.  Too high or low or open load caps, wrong oscillator setting, bad
layout, etc.  I've done well over 100 PIC projects and have many individual
units in the field, yet I've never heard of a PIC not oscillating when the
rest of the circuit and the firmware setup was right.

Unless you can offer some kind of proof it was the PICs, the far more likel=
y
reason is that you screwed up, not Microchip.  Extraordinary claims require
extraordinary proof.


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