serial communication speed

[Jerson]

You could try using RS485 communications if the boards are far apart. a master slave topology will help with the 18F1320 being the master.

As for speed, you have to spell out your requirement and then check if the processor goes fast enough. Another thing, if you send the data as binary, it will need time for just 3 words + protocol overhead. If the same data is sent as ASCII formatted data, you will spend longer sending it since 1 word will become 4 Hex digits.

You do not need to synchronize to the same crystal, except the baud rate should match

Jerson

[Davidpower]

Thanks, but I don´t know how fast that means.....how many crystal tics or how many micrseconds. The thing is I try look how fast the processor is and determine how much i could pack into the software.....i try to do so...
the pics are all on one small board max 2 inches apart. dream clock speed is 20 Mhz for the master Pic, the small 12F629 just need 4 Mhz.

If the speed is very fast, say 200 microseconds for one complete "Master-slave-Info-cycle" I could use a 36 teeth inductor wheel which gives me fantastic acurracy. Otherwise i have to use the 4-tic per engine cycle wheel and have to interpolate.