looked too quickly. I was looking into hardware decoding, or at least helping the micro out with a little hardware. it's only a NAND gate, but a 40 mhz clock works fine. (also found out in the process that a PIC18F4685 makes a nice 'upgrade' to the PIC16F877A in a LAB-X1 board).

http://www.siliconchip.com.au/cms/A_107882/article.html

http://docs.tibbo.com/taiko/index.ht...egand_mode.htm

happy decoding.