On Saturday, Dec 20, 2003, at 13:12 US/Pacific, Daniel Gliebe wrote:

> I'm looking for recomendations on how to get started in TCP/IP stuff.
> I'd like to know if there are any PIC's out there that have a Network
> interface built in.

Lots of PICs have built-in serial (USART) interfaces that make a fine
"beginners" interface to tcp/ip networks.  You can run async slip,
async ppp, ax.25, synchronous ppp, or "cisco hdlc" (which is sort of
the synch equivilent of SLIP in complexity.)  Of course, you'll need
something on the other end of the serial link for the PIC to talk to
and connect you to the capital-I Internet.   A PC can probably do
this, or assorted dialup servers.  A commercial slip/internet gateway
would be realtively expensive...

BillW

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