Okay, so I built the IDC2 clone, and I'm missing one component (lost to my room's sly habit of making things dissapear. The one component is the oscillator :\
What would happen if I put in a 16mhz ceramic oscillator into the circuit rather than the 20mhz? Is there some sort of internal looping that's defaultly enabled on the pic16 that could mess things up with a lower frequency?
Well thats a large difference, all the chips timings and delays for programming are based on 20mhz so what would happen with a 20% reduction in speed I'm not sure.
Possibly because its slower you might get away with it - although I would assume the ds30 might not be as tollerant as say a 16F chip ?