Neil
   There are SPI/I2C UART ICs made by both NXP and Maxim.  The parts and 
probably eval boards are available from Digikey and others.

Regards
-Bill Knight
R O SoftWare

PicDude wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> What would be really nice right now for debugging a program in progress is
> if I had an easy way to dump a bunch data from a PIC to a display.  The
> serial port on the PIC is in use, but the MSSP is unused, so first thought
> is to make a small circuit that would accept I2C or SPI data and put it on a
> large (40x4 or 80x4) LCD display.  But on second thought, seeing as I don't
> have an LCD handy,  it would be nice to just send the output to
> hyperterminal.  Plus it would be so nice and portable as I travel a lot and
> get most of my coding done when I'm out.
> 
> The circuit should be very simple, but before I go out and re-create the
> wheel here, anyone have code for this they're willing to share?
> 
> Yes, I guess I could bit-bang serial through the spare pins, but I'd like to
> use the MSSP to impact the PIC application as little as possible.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Neil.
> 

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