I found both a quartz crystal and an oscillator with the same 4-pin package= : and Then I designed the attached circuit, that can be assembled with either the crystal or the oscillator. When Microchip fixes the chip I could choose to use the crystal. Cheers, Isaac Em 31/05/2016 05:16, alan.b.pearce@stfc.ac.uk escreveu: >> Good to know... I'm not fluent with the differences between the EC, EF e= tc. >> Good that there is a workaround to the oscillator issue, but it's still = a fairly >> significant bug. Hopefully that's on the high-priority fix list. > Judging by the way some of the previous problems in PIC24/33 families hav= e stuck around I wouldn't bet on a fix arriving 'any time soon'. > > > --=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 .