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By trickae
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My project requires I hook up an ID-12 to a PIC 16F886. I know I have to toy with EUART's but how would i do this. There are two data outs shown here

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I'm guessing each data out would hold a byte or two of information. Since a PIC holds 8 bit instructions - should I mask the output of the reader such that I only read in the LSB 4-8 bits for my circuit? Can I do the masking with the pic, or will it be automatically taken care of as it can only hold 8 bits, or ... do I need to buy a seperate chip with a longer instruction set and have it do the masking and then send it to the PIC.

Any help would be highly appreciated, thanks.