UART only receiving FF and FE

Question

I am currently working on transmitting from a PIC18F4620, through a FT232, to CoolTerm. I am currently only receiving FF and FE from the PIC though. I was wondering why this may be the case. The Rx - TX are correctly switched, the cable connecting them appears to be secure. The only issue I can think of is the baud rate would be incorrect, But looking at the datasheet I don't believe it is. any insight would be greatly appreciated. (I arbitrarily chose 51 as my test number. any number or letter would work).

Circuit

const unsigned char MSG0[] = "Transmitting... ";
const unsigned char MSG1[] = "Sent:";
const unsigned char MSG2[] = "TEST:";

// Subroutine Declarationsb
#include <pic18.h>

// Subroutines
#include        "lcd_portd.c"

#include <delays.h>
#include <plib.h>
#include <stdint.h>

void UART_TX_Init(void)
{
    BRG16 = 0;
    BRGH = 1; // Set For High-Speed Baud Rate
    SPBRG = 64; // Set The Baud Rate To Be 9600 bps
  //--[ Enable The Ascynchronous Serial Port ]--
    SYNC = 0;
    SPEN = 1;
  //--[ Set The RX-TX Pins to be in UART mode (not io) ]--
    TRISC6 = 1;  // As stated in the datasheet
    TRISC7 = 1;  // As stated in the datasheet
    TXEN = 1; // Enable UART Transmission
}

void UART_Writes(uint8_t data)
{
    while(!TRMT);
    TXREG = data;
}

// Main Routine
void main(void)
{
    UART_TX_Init();
    unsigned int result = 0;
    unsigned int i;
    uint8_t      data = 51;
    TRISA = 0;
    TRISC = 0;
    TRISB = 0;
    TRISD = 0;
    TRISE = 0;
    TRISA = 0;
    TRISB = 0x00;
    PORTC = 0;
    PORTD = 0;
    PORTE = 0;
    ADCON1 = 0x0F;

    LCD_Init();                  // initialize the LCD
    LCD_Move(0,0);  for (i=0; i<20; i++) LCD_Write(MSG0[i]); 
    Wait_ms(100); 
    LCD_Move(1,0);  for (i=0; i<5; i++) LCD_Write(MSG1[i]); 
    while(1) {
        Wait_ms(1000);
        UART_Writes(data);
        LCD_Move(1,5); LCD_Out(data,3,0);
    }
}

CoolTerm

Answer 1

What is your clock frequency and how did you configured your crystal oscillator setup ? please share your clock setting and configuration.

If clock setting is fine then calculate the correct baud-rate and try.

void UART_Writes(uint8_t data)
{

while(!TRMT)
{
  //put Nop() and try
}
    TXREG = data;
}