Tim's own version of the Catweasel/Compaticard/whatever - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

6 Jul 2000

From: Tony Duell &lt;ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk&gt;
...
 Yes, but when the microcontroller + Xtal + caps clocks
fine on a PCB and
fine on stripboard[1], but fails to work on a breadboard, then I think I am
...
 justified in (partially) blaming the breadboard ;-).

No Your not!  it is a lousy oscillator and susceptable to stray and all
manner
of bad things.  I've seen them NOT work on very well laid out 4 layer
boards
as well.

...
 Deadbugging is great!. It's good to a few hundred
MHz at least. I've used
...
 if for analogue stuff many times. 

Yes it is, I've used it to 1GHZ with great success.  While I was sick
last week
I even kluged a 75m phone RX on a 2x4" peice complete with 6kc bandwidth
mechanical filter.  Looks kinda poor but works solid.

Allison