AVR-Chat

On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Dean Claxton <deanclaxton@gmail.com> wrote:

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>
> Has anyone come across this sort of thing before? I've checked with the
> boardhouse that is assembling the PCB's and they have their ovens set up
> correctly so I'm thinking that it must truly be a bd batch of parts.
>

Check your static controls.  Humidity has changed for the summer season,
there is also counterfeit ESD stuff showing up now.  Like we didn't have
enough problems with counterfeit parts.

Do the A/D pins that are failing have a more direct path to the outside
world than other pins?  That would fit the ESD hypothesis.

http://blog.softwaresafety.net/2010/05/counterfeit-esd-products-guide-on-emc.html

http://blog.softwaresafety.net/2010/04/software-bug-or-electrostatic-discharge.html


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