The latest PIC'n book, Serial PIC'n, has programs to implement I2C and EEPROM block read and write. Very little PIC resources are used. See their site at www.sq-1.com Roger On Sun, 11 Jul 1999 15:19:16 -0500 "s. rao" writes: >Greetz. > >Does anyone have any experience implementing an I2C bus master using a >PIC16C76 (or other similar chip)? I'm trying to do this for a >one-master bus with an 24LC32A EEPROM as the only slave, and only >block-read and block-write required. Microchip's AN554, "Software >Implementation of I2C Bus Master" talks generally but I'm not sure how >to solve this specific problem. What kind of h/w on the PIC will be >used for the bus master -- how much RAM, how many temp variables, >etc.; will one or more real time clocks be needed? Are interrupts >needed? I'd rather run the master in the background if I could. > >Many thanks for your time. > >Regards, > >Shrisha Rao ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.