[geeks] Re: PICs (was: Geeky Valentine's day card)

[Dave McGuire]

On February 16, Jon Still wrote:
> On Friday, February 15, 2002, at 04:25 PM, Dave Kimmel wrote:
> > regulators, some ceramic resonators, a PIC programmer and a couple of
> 
> OK, I appreciate my electronics knowledge is a tad limited, but I've 
> never heard of something called a resonator.  Do you mean the crystal 
> used to drive the on-chip clock at a given frequency?
> 
> Gotta love UK<->US language differences :)

  This isn't one of those differences.  A ceramic resonator is similar
to a crystal, but not quite as stable, and much cheaper.  Most modern
microcontrollers can use them for their clock oscillators as well as
crystals.

      -Dave

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Dave McGuire
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