Ahhh HA! Good to know I'm not the only one who dealt with that PIC problem. Worked with the Microchip FAEs for months on it. I finally got them to admit there was a bug in the circuit.... prompted a revision on their part and a work-around on mine. It was intolerant of a non-monotonic or too slow power up voltage waveform I believe. I had dozens of field returned boards....
Terry On Wednesday, January 27, 2016 at 10:21:41 AM UTC-6, MrStevenUND wrote: > I myself have done very little hobby microcontroller work. My nixie > clock is all discrete, but I got a bunch of sample PICs before I left > school. I pulled them out the other day and started wiring an xxF87 for a > 14 segment display and thermometer. Haven't gotten to the code yet. > > At work, we use primarily MSP430s, which are easy and I should have gone > with for this project. Some older projects are on a PIC. A previous job > used AVR for some small things like power-up control. Those had previously > been PIC but there was an issue of the PIC loosing it's programming > randomly (not sure any details). > > It will be interesting to see how things shake out. > > On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 9:22 AM, Nick <ni...@desmith.net <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> +1 on hating the PIC "architecture". >> >> I was always an AVR man, then I discovered the MSP430 series... :) >> >> Nick >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "neonixie-l" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to neonixie-l+...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send an email to neoni...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/b04ebbc8-4c6c-44af-bfea-a651d28de1f9%40googlegroups.com >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/691661cd-66a4-4618-abb6-2f4916081cb1%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
