Microchip TC32M Supervisory Circuit and Bootloader

[modifyit]

Any other thoughts? I guess I could try and come up with a circuit that will monitor the rs232 chip to tell if it is programing and disconnect the mclr from the TC32M when that happens. I'm not positive how to do that tho.

Thanks again

[NavMicroSystems]

Any other thoughts?

How about using a 10F PIC as supervisory circuit?
(It would be fully programmable)

That's what I'm going to do on one of my current projects.

[modifyit]

Interesting thought, how would you suggest implementing the brownout protection portion of the 10F?

I guess I could make a 10F send a strobe out to reset the TC32M during a bootload.This may be a little excessive tho, not sure what I am going to do at this point.