I used to have a favorable opinion of Microchip, until their patent case against Scenix. http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Court+Rules+for+Scenix+Semiconductor+in+

I used to have a favorable opinion of Microchip, until their patent case against Scenix. http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Court+Rules+for+Scenix+Semiconductor+in+Dispute+With+Microchip%3B...-a053963382 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Court+Rules+for+Scenix+Semicon... Featuring such fabulous claims as: -- Having a number of I/O pins that is less than the instruction word size; the SX Series 12-bit instruction word is clearly smaller than its number of I/O pins.