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> I thought that one of the PICS had a UART built in but I can't find any.
> Am I missing something or is there one that does RS232 using a built-in
> UART?  I do NOT want to do RS232 using PIC code - I want speed...!!!
>
19200 full duplex in a PIC16C54HS running at 18.432 MHz with 2/3 of
the CPU time left over. Could that be something..?
The application note with the RS232 state machine is NOT the most
efficient way to do a software UART. If I remember right it can do
9600 in a 20 MHz PIC but you will have no time left for other things.
Let me know if you're interested!

/Tomas

Tomas Westlund
OPQ Systems AB
Sweden

tomas@opq.se