Yeah, it's all possible, particularly if you have a human at the PC end at
first (you can automate this later).

The 16F625 (and its stable mates) are a cheaper replacement for the 84 with
twice the memory, twice the operating speed and some extra features like
comm ports for eprom *AND* for PCs built in.  Uses the same instruction set,
but you need to be careful crossing memory page boundries and the
configuration registers (like status and intcon) have been altered to
address the extra internal hardware.

Get the data sheet from Microchip.

Bye.


-----Original Message-----
From: Stuart Johnson [mailto:stujo@OPENCOUNTRY.COM]
Sent: 02 August 2001 19:03
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: [PIC]: newbie: pic to pc and 16C84 ?


I have played with a PIC16C84 a few years back and got mostly positive
results but this is a bit of a jump for me. Is it possible to transfer data
from a pic and/or connect EPROM to a text file on my personal computer. This
would most likely overwrite what is in the file but I may need to append it
in future projects.  As you can tell I am not fully up to speed here so any
help will be appreciated; links, tutorials, books, etc.

Also, I assume the PIC16C84 has a more current replacement.  Any suggestions
on this that would work with my old programmer? Budget is tight so I need to
do this the old el-cheapo way.

Thanks in advance.

stujo

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