Hi Russell,

Check out "Inside PC Card" by Faisal Haque published by EDN. I used this
text to help me do exactly what you're talking about. It actually turned out
to be very easy to interface the PIC to PCMCIA, you don't need a controller
especially for PCMCIA I/O devices like a modem.

Regards,
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pic microcontroller discussion list
> [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of Russell Hay
> Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 1999 5:18 AM
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: PCMCIA and PIC
>
>
> I am rather new to the PIC microprocessor and I have a project which I am
> working on which requires communication over a phone line.  The
> thought that
> I had would be to use a PCMCIA modem to communicate over the phone line
> (very low baud rate for obvious reasons)  Anyway, I have been
> unable to find
> any online documentation of PCMCIA communications.  The only thing I found
> were a postings back in '97 on this list talking about interfacing, but
> nothing concrete.  I've been referred to pc-card.com which
> requires a bit of
> money to get any kind of real information on the card.  The bit
> of money is
> more than I care to spend on Information.  If someone has any
> links or maybe
> some information about PCMCIA communication, this would help me out a lot.
> Thank you in advanced
>
> Russell
>
>
> Russell C. Hay
> Vservers, LLC
> Rhay@vservers.com
> http://www.vservers.com
>

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