Thanks for the Suggestions! Not a programing guru myself so anything that unloads programing headaches is appreciated (FORTH is my prefered language). Price point won't be a big issue as I think I will only be building 1 of these. Time to develope is an issue, of course it is needed yesterday. Downloading the 3100 data sheet now.... Kev > > >simultaneously. Not sure if a PIC has the oomph though. > > But I'm sure it's a lot cheaper than eight MAX3100's! > > It depends on how much you have to do with the data as well... The max chips > unload the cpu, and almost completely remove timing constraints. > > Good luck! > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different > ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.