Serial Communications Library -- BoostC and 16F877A

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Summary

  • Name: Serial Communications Library -- BoostC and 16F877A
  • Purpose: A C library ( in source code form ) for serial communications together with a program demonstrating its use.
  • Status: This page in draft. Code works but still in refinement, code available, email russ_hensel
  • Technology: BoostC and PIC 16F877A
  • Author: russ_hensel ( where you can find an email address to reach me )
  • License: not fully determined, but open source and object code.


This is one of a series of articles on Microcontroller Serial Communications, rooted at this site here: Microcontroller Serial Communications Articles


Features

Feature Details


Code is for USART hardware on PIC 16F877A. Should be fairly easy to port to similiar processors
Receive is interrupt driven. Receive should be active all the time although overrunning the buffer is possible.
Microcontroller Serial Communications Articles
Transmit is blocking. During a transmit no activities that are not interrupt driven occur.
Command interface is included. PIC is setup to receive serial commands and respond to them.
Command interface includes a stop command to halt long running operations. Character is !