> Have anyone designed a one pin interface? > > It would be nice to have a simple monitor suopport program in every PIC, so > if we want to check inside it when it is working (or working wrong) we can > attach a specialised unit with a display and keyboard to it. We must use > minimum number of pins for it (one), and it should be possible to implement > "everywhere". > > The monitor unit I believe can be built using a F84, LCD and a few keys to > select adress and view and change registers, force gotos or calls to > stop,test,run routines etc in the target system. > > The target system's routine shoud of course be as possible as possible, and > perform som kind of erroer check so it don't treat noise as instructions. > > The monitor scans the keys, decode it to simple instructions and send them > to the target. The target sends back register contents binary, which the > monitor decodes and displays. > > /Morgan O > > > > > Morgan Olsson, MORGANS REGLERTEKNIK, Sweden, ph: +46 (0)414 70741; fax 70331 > - Ever heard of an ICE?