By golly you're right!  Just found a couple candidates.  And it would make
things soooo easy.  Except that I'd have to wait on a part.  If it were a
PIC I have a nice range of those laying around.  I may have to try and
create a PIC version myself ... as I never have too many projects it seems
=8-O 

Cheers,
-Neil.



Bill Knight wrote:
> 
> 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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