Hello everyone, I have followed some threads here for a while and - before I ask a question - like to introduce myself: I'm a retired engineer who has spent some time programming databases (VBA) and a little circuit design experience (some decades ago). I do not have any experience programming real-time tasks. oh, and I live in Germany. I want to start a PIC project now: the task is to read from a serial bus and display then some information on an LCD panel. The challenge here is to read the bus. I have not found any example program for such bus: it is the European Installation Bus (EIB). There is only one signal wire (and ground of course). It works like the NRZ (non return to zero): Logical 0 is a voltage change and 1 is no change. Time for 1 bit is 104 microseconds. Can anybody recommend any program for a similar bus from which I can start and modify it? Also, I have no feeling for the size of such program, so would anyone dare to propose which PIC I should start with? Thank you Lembit (Lembit Soobik) -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist