Athanasios Gogos wrote:

> Hi John, like you said maybe we could help each other (however I better warn
> you that I am a begginer in this field), but if you read AN554 you will see
> that if you want to implement I2C on hardware your solution lies on PIC16C64 o
r
> PIC16C74
> both having on chip the slave feature.
> If you want could you please send me a brief statement of your application to
> my address, cause we are doing is quite similar.
> e-mail:athanasios.gogos@ncl.ac.uk
>
> John Esposito wrote:
>
> > Hello all.
> >
> > I want to have a central micro running as a "supervisor" and a second micro
> > implementing a remote keypad and LCD display.  I was looking towards I2C,
> > but because of the remote micro's limited use, the low-end PICs do not
> > implement I2C in hardware (so a software solution would be necessary).
> > Does anyone have experience with this type of application?  Could you give
> > me some advice/battle scars?  What is the "best" way to interface the two?
> >
> > I will hold off on my further questions.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > --John Esposito