[chbot] Stampalike progress, microchip direct, and a toaster oven.

[Chris Hellyar]

Ta-da...

http://www.cpix.co.nz/myio/myStamp88smd-2.png

To allow for a full sized crystal and keeping single sided I shifted the
reset switch to under the ICSP header, so it now has to be SMD now. :-)

Still not convinced of the benefit of the DS1233 on a modern PIC though.
And if someone really wanted to they could stick it across RA5/MCLR in a
to92 package on the host board.

I'm picking in a lot of applications this type of 'stampalike' will not
even have MCLR enabled to allow use of RA5 anyway.

Anyone got a good argument for an external reset manager on a micro that
has a good brown-out reset anyway?

Cheers, Me.

 I could squeeze one in on there I think, without too much of a
reshuffle, 

> > 8Mhz internal would do 95% of what folks would want to
> > do with the '88 on a hobby project, and they could stick a resonator
> > external if they wanted..  Default config for the RS232 bootloader will be
> > to use the internal 8Mhz.
> 
> Again, you can do both, i.e. you have holes for through-hole
> resonators/crystals and an SMD footprint overlapping or very close to the
> holes.  Don't forget blank pads for (SMD) load caps so a crystal can be
> used.