RS232 Port: Hardware or software?

[I_AM_THE_NRA]

Is the RS232 communication used in Flowcode a matter of the different PICs used or does it reside completely in Flowcode? In other words, Can one program just about any PIC chip and enable the Flowcode RS232 or Is it that the specific PIC chip somehow has to support RS232 communication? If it's dependent on the chip, Is there a list? Also, is there a simple interface circuit that shows how to connect the PIC chip to the RS232 driver chip? Thanks to any and all for your help, Regards, Gil.

[Benj]

Hello Gil

At the moment Flowcode requires that the target chip has a hardware Universal Synchronous Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter or USART for short.

Here is a list of 16F devices with the peripherals shown.
http://www.microchip.com/ParamChartSear ... &pageId=74

And here are the 18F devices.
http://www.microchip.com/ParamChartSear ... &pageId=74