Not critical. The parts that I see as critical are getting the loading caps right, and returning their ground ends to the PICs ground pin and nowhere else, not dumping them into a plane, and definitely not putting them into a track that eventually gets back to the PIC ground pin. On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 8:49 PM, wrote: > PS. How critical is it to have traces of equal length to the crystal? M= y > crystal's a bit offset at the moment in the design, meaning one trace is > longer than the other, and that's one of the reasons I was looking at new > crystals, to accommodate a design change in the limited space available. > > Lee > > -- > http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .