Hi all I would like to make a serial interface between a PIC 12C509A and a = 16F84 i have a maximum of 4 I/O lines availble for this task on both = chips.=20 I need to transfer 8-bits between the IC's for instance 00010010 but im = on bare ground here, any ideas documents help etc. would be wery = appriciated. Also i have another question: If i could make the serial interface with = 2 wires could i then convert the signal to RS-485 so that i could have = extensive cable lenght ?=20 Thanks for any information and for reading this. Best Regards Lasse Madsen -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.