Post by thread:Somewhat of an MPlab question

What does PWRT represent? I don't recognize the acronym but I became familiar with it when I updated to the latest MPLab and I kept getting a message that PWRT conflicts with config bits for BOD. This happened whenever I tried to write to a 16F876 so I deduced that BOD was brown out detect and I was able to write once I turned off BOD, otherwise I tried flashing the chip with a program that had a PWRT mention in the config line I think, and BOD was allowed to stay on. So what does all that mean?

PWRT = the Power-up Timer , which provides a fixed delay of 72 ms (nominal) on power-up only. This design keeps the device in reset while the power supply stabilizes. from the datasheet :) John {Original Message removed}

> PWRT = the Power-up Timer , which provides a > fixed delay of 72 ms (nominal) on power-up only. This > design keeps the device in reset while the power supply > stabilizes. Thanks. > from the datasheet :) I figured it would be somewhere in there...but I've seen those 200 pages so much and not found what I need, that I thought it would be a relatively easy question for someone to answer without getting annoyed over "RTFM" stuff! I thank you for that as well. I'm just trying to learn the pic from all over the place instead of going systematically as I should...since time is very short. Instead of reading the data sheet and learning what all the acronyms mean, for now I'm trying to get my specific application running and as I go along I learn what the instruction set commands do that are used in my glued together experiments. Today it's time to take a channel of A/D and get it displayed on 7 segments from 0 to 255. Last night all I got was a steady "0" readout....at least I got the ports working!