Hi,

I am trying to use the UART on the PIC18C452 to read serial output from the
computer.  I have successfully been able to send serial output and view it
on the computer, but I want to go the other way.  I am using the MPLAB C18 C
compiler, sofware UART, interfacing to the computer through a MAX233 chip.
What I want to do is have a place in the program where the PIC checks for
data from the computer, or it waits there for a certain character to be sent
from the computer.  For example:


...

char SerialIn;  //character to hold data from UART

...

SerialIn=ReadUART();  //reads a character in through the Software UART
while(SerialIn != 0x30){  //wait while SerialIn is not 0x30 ('0')
        SerialIn=ReadUART();  //read a character from the Software UART
}

...



The program will pause at this point and wait, but this code does not seem
to work. Perhaps it is a timing problem?  What i'd really like to do is use
some kind of interrupt, but i'm not sure how to go about that.  Is there a
buffer that could hold this serial information that I could just
periodically check instead of continuously polling the UART input pin?  I
appreciate any help that you can offer.  Thanks!


James Hyslop


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