Hi everybody:

  I'm a little confused with the IIC and SPI support of the PICs:

a) One of the application notes talk about SOFTWARE Master IIC but says that
SLAVE isn't so easy, is that true?
b) Another talks about HARDWARE Multi-Master IIC, but seems that this is only
possible with 16C62 or greater or 16C73 or greater but not with a 18 pins PIC.

  So if I want to use a PIC like an slave peripheric: How can I do?, I must use
a great PIC?.

  For example: a 16C84 is great chip for a password keyboard because you can
reprogram the passwords from the keyboard and save these pass. in the internal
EEPROM, but in my case I want to use the 16C84 like a peripheric and run the
true application in another PIC.

  Another question:
  What's the price of the 16C62A and 16C73 JW and OTP versions?
  Anybody knows a source for these chips that can ship the chips to South
America at rasonable price?

  Tanks in Advance, and sorry for my english.

SET.

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