Hi

I new to this world of microcontrollers but have succeeded in building a pcb using a 87c52 with external eprom and sram which will flash a LED. Now I'm on to trying to get the serial port up and running in a polled mode and have done alot of reading about these sfr registers: SCON,TCON,and TMOD as well as the TH1,TI and RI bits

I have selected a 11.0592mhz crystal which according to my calculations gives a even number of 250 to set the baud rate at 9600 with.

My serial_init function looks like this:

SCON=0x50;
TMOD=0x11;
TCON=0x52;
TH1=250
TI=1;
RI=0;