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Hi Medelec35,

With the 4 bits I need to drive the LCD plus the RS and Enable, I don't think I'm going to be able to use port A of the PIC16f88. RA5 can only be used as an input. So I'm left with only 5 I/O pins and I need 6. I can easily go to another PIC but I just thought I was missing something ...

Thanks Medelc. I'll change the pin and see how it goes.

Hi,

I'm trying to hook up a 2 X 16 LCD with a samsung driver to a PIC 16F88 microcontroller. I'm trying to run in 4 bit mode as it seems that the Flowcode component macro dictates. The LCD can run in either 4 bit or 8 bit mode and is software selectable. How do I enter the command in flowcode to ...

Thanks Ben. I guess I'll pick a different PIC for my app. I need 8 inputs and 8 outputs. You've been a great help.

Hi,

I'm new to both Flowcode and embedded programming. I'm having trouble figuring out how to switch all the pins in portA of a 16F88 chip to i/o digital using Flowcode. Does this happen automatically when I set them to an input within my flowcode program? Flowcode shoes all 8 bits as available for ...