Any different between USART and EUSART?

[Demon]

Wow, tough crowd.
http://www.microchip.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=220648&mpage=1&key=&

I had the same question tonight, happy I used google. I may be able to "find stuff" in a datasheet, it doesn't mean I understand everthing. Quite often things pass over my head and I have to go back a few times before it sinks in.

I hope we don't come across that "unwilling" (sorry, only word that comes to my francophone mind) to help a new guy. We can't assume everyone is fluent in datasheetian. I remember the first time I came here, it was quite overwhelming, and that was with 16F PICs. I was fortunate to find Mr E that lives 30 minutes from here.

I'm not bashing Microchip forum, tons of info and competent people there. Just making an observation.

Robert The Eternal Noob

[russellperry]

The E stands for Enhanced Usart, its basically the same but with some extra features like Sleep/ Wake up on receive.

You do not need a Usart module to send out serial data, you can simply use your program to send out the data, known as a software usart or bit banging.

With Hardware Usart the incoming or outgoing byte of data is passed to / from the main program code and the Usart module takes care of all the complicated timings.

You don't say what programming language you are using ; just do a web search for Pic Usart tutorial to see many examples.