who are the masters? who are the slaves? is the net a party-line? what frequency? 100 KHz or 400 KHz? or less? why not using a cheap PIC as i2c device for the HC16? why not using a parallel to i2c controler (philips has one, as I know)? Sergi Sanchez Barcelona Tecnologia S.A. http://www.piclist.org/techref/member/SSB-BTSA-K6C -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.