The manufacturers will recommend whatever will sell you more silicon, and they are reluctant to discuss the weaknesses in their products, since that won't help their bottom line.

I understand your approach, and there's at all nothing wrong with it. So long as you have results acceptable to yourself and your clients/customers/employers, you're on firm ground.

I am, however, disappointed that, while many seem to agree that "RESET problems" exist, nobody, not an 8052.COM discussion participant, and not an 805x manufacturer, even those who clearly proclaim the existence of RESET-related problems with their 805x products, explains what these "RESET problems" are, and how they manifest themselves. There has been discussion after discussion about what mainly amounts to flash corruption. Well, this has to occur AFTER the supervoltage charge pump is active and fully charged. That wouldn't be during the rising Vcc, unless it's during recovery from a slight brownout. Mainly it would occur when the system power supply is decaying. As I've pointed out, I've observed run-on, including access to external memory, during slowly decaying Vcc in the presence of ACTIVE RESET. The circumstances were a bit arcane, but still, it shouldn't happen, should it?

RE