On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 17:42:54 +0000, Mike Blakey wrote:

>I'm doing a little project using an f876 storing and retrieving data (a =
lookup
>table) into the EEDATA memory. The routine works fine, except for =
receiving data
>from the PC. I send the data using VB6 MSComm1 but I get an overrun =
error after
>about 4 bytes. even if I change the speed from 19200 down to 9600, =
exactly the same
>thing happens. I have not got any hardware handshaking, so I am assuming=
 that I
>will have to handshake by sending back an acknowledgement byte before =
sending the
>next byte down to the PIC. Am I missing something or is this the right =
way? Thanks.
>

It sounds like you're trying to write the data to the EEPROM memory on
a byte-by-byte basis, is this true? If so, the PIC isn't able to get
back to the UART code in time to read the next byte before more bytes
are sent by the PC.

EEPROM writes are relatively slow. You will probably have more success
if you can buffer up the data in RAM. You can then send the data in
blocks from the PC to the PIC and write the data blocks to EEPROM
between PC transmissions.=20

Acknowledgement bytes and XON/XOFF handshaking are usually best done
with blocks of data rather than with each individual byte.


Regards, Bob

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