It is looking like the software serial port presents it's own set of =
problems.  It might be better to move some pins around and use the =
hardware UART.  Max232's are not THAT expensive.......

-- Lawrence Lile, P.E.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan B. Pearce [mailto:A.B.Pearce@RL.AC.UK]
> Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 10:22 AM
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: Re: [PIC:] Architecture for serial comms in C
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> >"...In the current project I am using a software
> >serial port for various reasons..."
> >
> >So the UART-RX interrupt will not work, if I'm not wrong...
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> I hadn't picked up on it, because I skim read the original post.
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> Perhaps one way to deal with the problem is to have a look at the =
serial
> uart code in the Microchip Pic-C18 compiler library. Even if using =
another
> series of chip, this will give a template of how to do the code.
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