On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:01 AM, vasile surducan <[email protected]>wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 7:30 AM, m...@watty <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Typically "over clocked" will fail at temperatures above 20C, or lower
>> than 5V supply and on a percentage of parts.
>> The amount possible to overclock will also be fewer devices, higher
>> voltage, lower temperature as you raise clock speed.
>>
>> It's not worth the risk on reliability grounds. The next one may not
>> work, there may be premature failure, or it will fail in summer.
>>
>
> This time you have right. However, since the question purpose was hobby and
> not production (my nose smell it) I can tell that 90% of the PIC works OK
> overclocked as suggested in the temperature range mentioned in the datasheet
> with external oscillator and external oscillator/internal PLL enabled
> combination.
>

External oscillator above should not be undertand as an external HS/XT
crystal, but a stand alone oscillator.

>
> The weak part of the PIC which is creating problems at high temperature is
> the internal oscillator and analogical stuff (reference, A2D and the
> comparator)
>

Internal oscillator above is not only the RC INTOSC but also the HS/XT which
is using a logic gate inside the PIC.

>
>>
>> On Mar 24, 1:33 pm, vasile surducan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Sebastien Lelong <
>> >
>> > [email protected]> wrote:
>> > > Hi guys,
>>
>> > > crystal. With 16 MHz Xtal, you have 16 * 4 = 64 Mhz, 4 being the black
>> magic
>> > > factor coming from PLL.
>> >
>> > > Now, what if I use a 20 MHz Xtal ?... Will PIC gets burnt ? Or will it
>> just
>> > > won't work ?
>> >
>> >    20MHz PICs works ok at 25MHz
>> >    40MHz PLL (10Mhz XTAL) works at 48Mhz (12MHz XTAL)
>> >
>> >   At 80MHz there is very low chance to work.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > > Cheers,
>> > > Seb
>>
>> listen to Vasile! Assume in this case he is being kind! :-)
>>
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