Computer to Microcontroller help

Hi pple,
I am having some problems trying to communite to the
microcontroller using pc.

Basically, i just want to send a signal to the com port or usb
the microcontroller receives and lights up some LEDs.

I read that 16F628A has USART... but i not sure of the programing...
if there is a way to do this without programing will be better.

Any ideas..
Thanks in advance..

Here is how you could do it with the serial port without any MCU: **broken link removed**

If you want to use USB, the easiest solution would be to use a usb to uart chip such as the FT232RL from FTDI, but that would take a bit of reconfiguring.

vinvin said:

Hi pple,
I am having some problems trying to communite to the
microcontroller using pc.

Basically, i just want to send a signal to the com port or usb
the microcontroller receives and lights up some LEDs.

I read that 16F628A has USART... but i not sure of the programing...
if there is a way to do this without programing will be better.

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You would do better posting this in the micro-controller forum, and reading the 'sticky' thread at the top of it!.

However, everything you need for serial is in my PIC tutorials!.

Sorry that i have post in the wrong section.
Thanx for the quick replies.. will definitely take a good look at the
circuits and the tutorials.