Laptop to Microcontroller through RS232-USB Converter

[Srini karthik]

Hi,
im currently planning to use PIC 16F877A for implementing smart metering. since I am also learnig .NET, i want to use laptop as my display unit. I also bought a RS232 USB-Converter. But,i don know how will the laptop recognize signal from MC and transmit data to microcontroller?? I am just a beginner,please explain me the basics of such interfacing techniques?!

 

[Okefenokee]

Here's a good place to start. It honestly wasn't hard to Google that.