that make more sense to me now with further test, when the pin RA3
has nothing connected to it, the input is floating thus
when adding a pulldown it's...
Because when you configure RA3 to act as a normal input the MCLR signal is disconnected from the pin and instead connected to Vdd internally. In other words, it's not the PIN that's connected to Vdd...
answer found !
from thread: PBP or ASM?
I cannot speak for all flavors of basic or C, the biggest difference is going to be your time. Assembly requires many times more lines of code to be written...
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Re: 16F690 MCLR as Input
many thanks Henrik to clarify this post.
jackberg1 - 27th October 2025, 20:42that make more sense to me now with further test, when the pin RA3
has nothing connected to it, the input is floating thus
when adding a pulldown it's...