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My opinion is the same: Microchip has a good software support, however auxiliar documentations are contradictory and many times there are information lacks on datasheets. The customer complaint issue i guess there are two faces: first Microchip indeed must be aware about users feedback. The cost is high to direct engineering toward an untrue issue. But otherwise they must be much more kind with customers, especially 10s thousands ones like me and many others. I respect all opinions in the list i post mine... Wilson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vasile Surducan" <> To: <> Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 7:27 AM Subject: RE: [piclist] Re: Microchip sucks :-) > On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, David W.S. King wrote: > > > > > Honestly I'd say Microchip is pretty good on their support and caters quite > > well to hobbyist and small users. I've gone from > > mooching al the samples I could to being able to order directs from them and > > can say there really isn't that great a difference in treatment > > unlike the distributors. > > Then certainly you live in the US. > Microchip is indeed very good in software support. Else they couldn't sell > own products. But they have to work seriously at documentations. A PIC > datasheet must contain a full and complete information about that > microcontroller. Terms like "these parameters are characterized but not > tested" should tell what I'm thinking about. Like I said, I'm not agree > that Microchip sucks, but they have more to work. > > best regards, > Vasile > http://surducan.netfirms.com > > to unsubscribe, go to http://www.yahoogroups.com and follow the instructions > Yahoo! Groups Links |
Microchip sucks :-)
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Wel then maybe Microchip does read these messages as the are planning to launch a knowledge base for better support (just to make sure they suck least then)
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Reply by ●August 26, 20042004-08-26
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Sorry for the OT joke, but it was just too funny. Probably not funny to all, but I just can't stop laughing. A computer without a Windows Operating system is like a dog without bricks tied to it's head. |
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Reply by ●August 27, 20042004-08-27
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Well, remember the last "16LF876 below 5v doesn't work" topic ? I had the curiosity to test all affirmation which has been done here. These are my own conclusions: PIC16LF04-I/P in SO package supplied at 3.3V works ok with 4MHz and 10MHz crystal and XT mode. Now the surprise: PIC16LF04-I/P SO package works very well at 20MHz in HS mode, supplied at 3.3V in the temperature range of 30C-70C. All tests were done on two different boards, using only a RS232 communications at 115200bps. Soooo, Microchip doesn't sucks at all . btw, a happy dog must have you there ! :)) best regards, Vasile On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Dave Mucha wrote: > Sorry for the OT joke, but it was just too funny. > > Probably not funny to all, but I just can't stop laughing. > A computer without a Windows Operating system > is like a dog without bricks tied to it's head. > > > to unsubscribe, go to http://www.yahoogroups.com and follow the instructions > Yahoo! Groups Links |
