Port Values

[mister_e]

Mmm, interesting point, i've never think about it.

A simple experimentation here reveal that it doesn't cause ANY problem as long as you did a HSEROUT before writing to PORTC. Once you did it, those RX and TX I/Os are dedicated to HSERIN/HSEROUT only.

i tried...

    '
    '    Pic Configuration
    '    =================
    @ __CONFIG _XT_OSC & _WDT_ON & _PWRTE_ON & _BODEN_ON & _LVP_OFF                  
         ' XT (4Mhz) oscillator
         ' Enable watch dog timer
         ' Enable power up timer
         ' Enable brown out detect
         ' Disable low voltage programming
             
    '
    '    Hardware configuration
    '    ======================
    TRISC=%10000000 ' PORTC.7 as input => USART RX,
                    ' Others as output

    '
    '    Serial Communication definition
    '    ===============================
    DEFINE HSER_RCSTA 90h ' Enable serial port & continuous receive
    DEFINE HSER_TXSTA 24h ' Enable transmit, BRGH = 1
    DEFINE HSER_SPBRG 25  ' 9600 Baud @4MHz, 0.16%
    DEFINE HSER_CLROERR 1 ' Clear overflow automatically

    '   
    '    Variables definition 
    '    ===================
    CounterA    var byte

    '
    '    Main program
    '    ============
    HSEROUT [0]
Start:
    PORTC=%11111111
    PAUSE 500
    PORTC=0
    PAUSE 500
    GOTO START

If you use it, you'll discover that nothing happen to PORTC.6 and PORTC.7... well they stay at their usual levels... High.

Now a slight better test...

Start:
    HSEROUT ["Send me data...",13,10]
    hserin [DEC Countera]
    PORTC=countera
    GOTO START

Use MicroCode Serial Communicator to do you Tests... it still work