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Kathy Quinlan wrote:
> Dennis Clark wrote:
> 
>>Hmm,
>>
>>   You know, I have this happen with my Tiny26 boards too.  They just
>>start doing something "else" every once and a while and I can't figure
>>out why.  In most cases if I hold down the reset while I power the
>>boards on, they work.  And the vast majority of the time the boards
>>work fine, but every once and a while...  What the heck is it with
>>Atmel devices that they are so flaky?  I've tried every form of reset
>>circuit known to man to make my boards reliable, every kind of EMI
>>design trick in the book, and still, on occasion, a board goes flaky.
>>
>>Hmmm, maybe I should just stay with PICs, they are dead solid reliable.
>>
>>Hmmm,
>>DLC
> 
> 
> Well I have over 2000 units in the field with T26, running 16MHz with 5V 
> psu, and not one is flaky, but then I know my supply is rock steady, the 
> boards are in an EMC enclosure and all external wiring is well protected 
> (by RC networks when they hit the inside of the enclosure).
> 
> I am yet to have a flaky product with ATMEL parts (except when I stuff 
> up and forget to program things like the BOD enable fuse ;)

   Hmm, now that you mention it...  Let me check that fuse bit, I _may_
have "stuffed up" and forgotten that on this board...

DLC

> Regards,
> 
> Kat.


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