There is hardware support for syncronous and asyncronous serial
communication.  Can be configured as master or slave... Check the data
sheets.  I use the UART for async. communication. It simplifies life
tremendously.  Chapter 11 in data sheet for master mode.

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From: William Richardson <wrichard@IDIRECT.COM>
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: I2C master on 16C74A
Date: Wednesday, December 17, 1997 11:44 PM

Is there any good code out there that can use the 16C74A as a Master
(single), can I use some of the slave hardware? or do I simply use generic
bit bashing...