My serial to parallel attempt

[mackrackit]

Look at the SHIFTOUT command in the PBP manual. It does the hard work for you.

[johndoug]

Thanks for the direction and tip. I have found out a bit more about about sending and receiving serial information using the PIC. Such commands as serout, hserout and even shiftout. My test was to try synchronous data, and to use a clock. It seems that I could even do away with the 74LS164 and use another PIC chip to receive. That is, a 12F683 could read in some analog voltage, send it out serially and be intercepted by a 16F84, 16F628 or 16F684 and sent out to a 2 or 3 digit 7-segment LED. It may also be an easier task to use the built-in asynchronous serial transfer. I will also be looking at this alternative.

[johndoug]

Thanks. I will look at it the first opportunity I get. My circuit is synchronous transfer, but I will also look at the advantages of asynchronous using other pic commands like serout and serin. I want to further explore these with the 16F84A, 16F628 and 16F684.