Comments on: Setting up and Using the UART for the PIC http://www.ece101.com/2008/11/setting-up-and-using-the-uart-for-the-pic/ You can learn from our mistakes. Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:50:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Joshua http://www.ece101.com/2008/11/setting-up-and-using-the-uart-for-the-pic/comment-page-1/#comment-1584 Joshua Sat, 13 Jun 2009 02:52:58 +0000 http://www.ece101.com/index.php/?p=673#comment-1584 Important addition to this post: If, for some reason, the transmission from your PIC works but you can't receive, make sure that you're not sharing your receive pin with something else, specifically an ADC pin. I switched from the 16F877a to the 16F690 and couldn't even get RCIF to set. After much scrambling about and finally Googling, I found that I hadn't cleared ANS11 to disable the analogue circuitry. Hope this tip saves you some time. Important addition to this post: If, for some reason, the transmission from your PIC works but you can’t receive, make sure that you’re not sharing your receive pin with something else, specifically an ADC pin. I switched from the 16F877a to the 16F690 and couldn’t even get RCIF to set. After much scrambling about and finally Googling, I found that I hadn’t cleared ANS11 to disable the analogue circuitry.

Hope this tip saves you some time.

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