A PIC between the source of the display and the LCD to organise the
display would be
nice. I recommend the PIC16F87 in SOIC18.

--Bob

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:21 PM, PicDude<picdude2@avn-tech.com> wrote:
>
> By golly you're right! =A0Just found a couple candidates. =A0And it would=
 make
> things soooo easy. =A0Except that I'd have to wait on a part. =A0If it we=
re a
> PIC I have a nice range of those laying around. =A0I may have to try and
> create a PIC version myself ... as I never have too many projects it seems
> =3D8-O
>
> Cheers,
> -Neil.
>
>
>
> Bill Knight wrote:
>>
>> Neil
>> =A0 =A0There are SPI/I2C UART ICs made by both NXP and Maxim. =A0The par=
ts 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. =A0T=
he
>>> 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. =A0But on second thought, seeing as I
>>> don't
>>> have an LCD handy, =A0it would be nice to just send the output to
>>> hyperterminal. =A0Plus it would be so nice and portable as I travel a l=
ot
>>> 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 li=
ke
>>> to
>>> use the MSSP to impact the PIC application as little as possible.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> -Neil.
>>>
>>
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