RE: pic reset?

"Philippe Paternotte" <[email protected]> Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:29:28 +0100
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Hi,

AFAIK the RESET instruction exists only on MCU >=3D PIC18.
It is theoretically strictly equivalent to a MCLR.
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Best regards,
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Philippe Paternotte
PIC Micro Pascal team leader
http://www.pmpcomp.fr


> If anyone reading this knows about a RESET opcode, please send
> pointers.
>=20
> Occasionally in reading MCHP docs I come across an apparent reference
> to a
> RESET instruction, but of course when I see it and when I could use it
> are
> two different times.
>=20
> Of course the default interpretation is that the apparent reference to
> a
> RESET instruction is rather a reference to pulling (down) on (an
> enabled)
> MCLR -- or dropping Vdd into a BOR, etc..
>=20
> And it's easy to imagine that the language of the documentation is not
> transparent.
>=20
> But I thought I'd ask, anyway.