Hi Olin & Others,

I understand what you are saying - I ignored indicating that I have already
studied the datasheet... actually, datasheets is so much a common part of my
life these days I dont even buy a component unless I have its datasheet
first... of course, things like resistors and led's (except for IR leds) are
excluded from this :) So, somewhere along the lines they have become so
common that I dont think about them all that much... its just part of the
cycle..

HOWEVER,

I am proud to say that I managed to get it to work with a little help from
Peter Schultz who sent me to .LST file of a compiled CCS C program - I read
through the code and added all the exception code which is required to talk
to the EEPROM via two wire without using I2C.

It seems to be working great at the moment, so if anyone ever needs the
ASSEMBLY code to use a 24LC256 without using I2C (This means it will
probably work on other processors which dont have I2C like 16F84 or the
like) you're welcome to send me some mail and I will gladly assist you where
I can.

I now have 32Kbytes of EEPROM and 32Kbytes of SRAM on my prototype board...
now for the rest :)

Once again, Thanks Peter.

Regards,
Andre Thomas

-----Original Message-----
From: pic microcontroller discussion list
[mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of Olin Lathrop
Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 2:41 PM
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: [PIC]: PIC16F877 and 24LC256 EEPROM


Because you pretty much said you read everything except the data sheet,
like you weren't aware of it or couldn't get hold of it.  I thought I was
giving you useful information that the data sheet was both necessary and
sufficient to solve your problem.


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