Tony Nixon wrote: >I recall mention on the list about the IO pins used for UART use are >automatically configured when the USART is enabled. > > >This is not the case with the 628 chips. The TRIS bits must be set >accordingly for it to work. ie. RX = in, TX = out. > >It is in the data sheet, although I missed it and got stung. > I missed it too (but I never had trouble with it :-)) If you look at p 36, p37 of DS40300B, you can see that it's not necessary to write to tris ??? Can you tell me where it's in the datasheet and which datasheet (Miicrochip has a number of erata) ? cheers, Stef Mientki >-- >Best regards > >Tony > >mICros >http://www.bubblesoftonline.com >mailto:sales@bubblesoftonline.com > >-- >http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! >email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body > > > > > -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body