Quote Originally Posted by Ioannis View Post
Did you check the USB-UART if it works with a serial output from PIC to PC?

Ioannis
I haven't done any serious test except plugging it on day 1 and trying it using ICD and MCS+5, like a kid on Christmas morning.

The circuit has CTS, RTS, RXD, TXD, GND and VCC; that leads me to believe it's capable of the same communication as our old MAX232 ICs. It might even be faster for all I know; I have no docs on this device.

It seems to be the new thing for UART communication over USB, but these boards all seem to love the FT232RL IC. Even Sparkfun likes it:
https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials...et-the-ft232rl

But you're right; I have no clue how this affects the serial component of USART comms. At this point, I mistrust myself as much as this new components (I've been out of the loop for so long).

I was hoping one of us had used these with success. If all else fails, I'll do like before and resort to LEDs and LCDs to debug my project. I do remember something about USB and interrupts in general not liking ICD - or something of the sort, which sucks cause my project is mainly USB.

My old 16F877 support both USART and UART comm, so does the SAM E70 in a PICKIT4. I don't see why this would be a problem, unless Microcode Studio absolutely needs serial, but again, I don't see why, since it's seeing the new COM4 from the PICKIT4.

I'll try some basic serial exchanges with MCS once I get my LCD wired up. Right now I'm up to my eyeballs learning C++ and VB.NET using Visual Studio 2022.