On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, JP wrote:

> Hi, as the 877 only has one USART I need to share it.  I need to have
> it recieving data from my GPS feed and sending data to a Serial LCD
> display, these do not need to communicate at the same time but I will
> need to isolate the GPS while writing to the LCD as I could corrupt
> the programable memory in the GPS.

Are you ONLY receiving from the GPS, and ONLY transmitting to the LCD?  If
so you have a no-brainer, just connect TxD to the LCD and RxD to the GPS,
assuming both can operate at the same bit rate.  Just a thought.

Dale
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