> Interestingly, Mchip's 'old' > USB low cost peripheral chip the PIC16C745, is used by many makers, inclu= ding > Velleman (in kits like K8055 - an IO expander), and Microchip (in some of= their > low cost development boards). Besides being OTP only, with no JW version = for > development, it costs almost twice as much as a PIC18F14J50. USB is murde= r by > complexity, imho. There used to be a JW part, I have one. Microchip may have dropped it from = their line as the 16C745 parts are now deprecated I believe, in favour of t= he bottom end 18F USB parts. But then who would want to use the 16C part an= yway, it is USB1.1 low speed only, where the 16F parts are all USB2 low and= full speed. --=20 Scanned by iCritical. --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .