On Sun, 4 Sep 2011, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:

> Jamie Lawson wrote 2011-09-04 04:00:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Having made sure to set the I/O pins of a 12F683 to
>> the digital configuration; I then proceeded to wrestle with strange
>> yet reproducible I/O problems for a few hours.
>>
>> I glanced at the data sheet...
>
> Probably better to actualy *read* the datasheet.

I agree 100%.

>>
>> I am now curious as to why the PICs analog capable pins generally power =
up
>> configured in the analog function. Any ideas?
>>
>
> If you have a analog signal connected, analog mode is the best
> startup mode.
>
> If you have a digital signal connected, analog mode doen't do
> any harm.
>

Ok. I was curious since other chip families do not generally start up in=20
analog mode (MSP430 and AVR for example).

Thanks Jan-Erik and Bob (Ammerman and Blick).

Jamie
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