hello,
does pic 18f452 works with a crystal of 40 mhZ?
i see on the sites that it can work with a 10 MHz crystal with PLL to multiply the frequency by 4?i don't get it .
As tnk said the maximum crystal frequency that the 18F452 (and other members of the PIC18 family) handle using the internal HS oscillator is 25 MHz.
The chip can however be configured to use an internal PLL X4 frequency multiplier that allows 4MHz to 10Mhz crystals to be multiplied up to give an effective clock frequencies of 16MHz to 40MHz.
In other word when used a s straight oscillator the max xtal and clock frequency is 25MHz
When used with the X4 PLL the max xtal frequency is 10MHz which translates to a clock frequency of 40MHz.