HI2CREAD and HI2CWRITE

[garryp4]

I was a bit dissapointed to find out that the I2C speed with the I2CREAD/WRITE commands are much slower that what the offered hardware is capable of. To get to this speed requires the use of writing some ASM code, which why we use PBP in the first place. I could really use this speed. The PIC supports it but PBP don't. However, I have found what PBP does support to be easy and work the first time every time.

[skimask]

I was a bit dissapointed to find out that the I2C speed with the I2CREAD/WRITE commands are much slower that what the offered hardware is capable of. To get to this speed requires the use of writing some ASM code, which why we use PBP in the first place. I could really use this speed. The PIC supports it but PBP don't. However, I have found what PBP does support to be easy and work the first time every time.

The software commands are fairly fast...but I don't know what you are considering to be fast. At 40mhz, I can generally erase a 32k eeprom byte-by-byte in about 4 seconds or so. No, not fast by any stretch, but as you state, easy to do.