If everyone from THIS forum were to complain to NXP via email, once the first day, twice the second day, four times the third, 16 times the fourth, 256 times the fifth ... which process could be automated, until they fixed their website, they'd probably fix this forthwith.


That 1 ms risetime spec appears in "the bible" and, as far as i can see, nowhere else. What's important, however, is that there should be a fall time, and it should be VERY short, in the 10's of ns, at least at the MCU. Unfortunately, there really is no firm specification for the rise-time and fall-time of Vcc, or, for that matter, of RESET. Moreover, there's no firm definition of what happens, with the oscillator running, when Vcc is too low for internal or external logic to behave predictably.


I pay no attention at all to what ATMEL does. Their, even once, use of French designers is sufficient to cause me to eschew all of their products forever.

This sort of thing is typical of high-tech manufacturers when they're taken over by holding companies. Similar things happened in the '80's when United Technolgies started gobbling up companies such as MOSTEK. They didn't really know how to run a high-tech company effectively, so they ultimately destroyed them.

Now that there's an internet via which we can register our dissatisfaction, we should, perhaps, use it.

RE