From: Tony Duell <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
>Yes, but when the microcontroller + Xtal + caps clocks fine on a PCB and
>fine on stripboard[1], but fails to work on a breadboard, then I think I
am
>justified in (partially) blaming the breadboard ;-).
No Your not! it is a lousy oscillator and susceptable to stray and all
manner
of bad things. I've seen them NOT work on very well laid out 4 layer
boards
as well.
>Deadbugging is great!. It's good to a few hundred MHz at least. I've
used
>if for analogue stuff many times.
Yes it is, I've used it to 1GHZ with great success. While I was sick
last week
I even kluged a 75m phone RX on a 2x4" peice complete with 6kc bandwidth
mechanical filter. Looks kinda poor but works solid.
Allison
Received on Thu Jul 06 2000 - 17:03:27 BST