Chaipi Wijnbergen wrote, >I am developing a small project using the PIC 16C74 and recently >needed to change the Crystal from 16MHz to 20MHz. When I did >that, a problem started with the asynchronous communication >controller, it started to recived wronge characters. Check out pages 2-600-607 of the MC 1995/96 Databook. It's the section on the (SCI) module, which has a formula for baud rate error and information on the registers etc. Mike