On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 01:54:26AM -0400, Josh Koffman wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 11:04 PM, Larry Bradley <larry.bradley@ncf.ca> wr=
ote:
> > Just got one the other day.
> >
> > They use the internal RC oscillator. The 24F chip has a basic 8 mHz
> > clock, rated at 0.25% accuracy, I think. There is an on-board PLL for
> > the USB port that gets you higher clock rates.
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> Hi Larry,
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> Thanks for the quick reply. I'm looking for fairly solid clock
> accuracy (serial comms) so maybe going with the USB 32 bit Whacker is
> a slightly better choice with what looks to be a clock module on
> board.
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> I do like that the Microstick would give me a few chip options to try,
> but I'm concerned that all of them would have to run off of internal
> clocks.
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> Any thoughts?

Just a data point. I'm currently testing my standalone PIC24F Forth
Interpreter using a 38.6K serial interface driven by the internal
oscillator. It's been working fine at room temperature so far.

Specifically the part is a PIC24FV16KM202.

BAJ
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> Josh
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