CIRCC datasheet(52/70 Pages) SMSC

52 / 70 page

NOTES ON SERIAL PORT OPERATION

FIFO MODE OPERATION:

GENERAL

The RCVR FIFO will hold up to 16 bytes

regardless of which trigger level is selected.

TX AND RX FIFO OPERATION

The Tx portion of the UART transmits data through

TXD as soon as the CPU loads a byte into the Tx

FIFO. The UART will prevent loads to the Tx

FIFO if it currently holds 16 characters.

Loading to the Tx FIFO will again be enabled as

soon as the next character is transferred to the Tx

shift register. These capabilities account for the

largely autonomous operation of the Tx.

The UART starts the above operations typically

with a Tx interrupt. The chip issues a Tx interrupt

whenever the Tx FIFO is empty and the Tx

interrupt is enabled, except in the following

instance. Assume that the Tx FIFO is empty and

the CPU starts to load it.

When the first byte

enters the FIFO the Tx FIFO empty interrupt will

transition from active too inactive. Depending on

the execution speed of the service routine

software, the UART may be able to transfer this

byte from the FIFO to the shift register before the

CPU loads another byte. If this happens, the Tx

FIFO will be empty again and typically the UART's

interrupt line would transition to the active state.

This could cause a system with an interrupt control

unit to record a Tx FIFO empty condition, even

though

the CPU is currently servicing that

interrupt.

Therefore, after the first byte has

been loaded into the FIFO the UART will wait

one serial character transmission time before

issuing a new Tx FIFO empty interrupt.

This one character Tx interrupt delay will

remain active until at least two bytes have

been loaded into the FIFO, concurrently. When

the Tx FIFO empties after this condition, the Tx

interrupt will be activated without a one

character delay.

Rx support functions and operation are quite

different from those described for the transmitter.

The Rx FIFO receives data until the number of

bytes in the FIFO equals the selected interrupt

trigger level.

At that time if Rx interrupts are

enabled, the UART will issue an interrupt to the

CPU. The Rx FIFO will continue to store bytes

until it holds 16 of them.

It will not accept any

more data when it is full. Any more data entering

the Rx shift register will set the Overrun Error flag.

Normally, the FIFO depth and the programmable

trigger levels will give the CPU ample time to

empty the Rx FIFO before an overrun occurs.

One side effect of having an Rx FIFO is that the

selected interrupt trigger level may be above the

data level in the FIFO.

This could occur when

data at the end of the block contains fewer bytes

than the trigger level. No interrupt would be issued

to the CPU and the data would remain in the

UART. To prevent the software from having to

check for this situation the chip incorporates a

timeout interrupt.

The timeout interrupt is activated when there is a

least one byte in the Rx FIFO, and neither the

CPU nor the Rx shift register has accessed the Rx

FIFO within 4 character times of the last byte. The

timeout interrupt is cleared or reset when the CPU

reads the Rx FIFO or another character enters it.

These FIFO related features allow optimization of

CPU/UART transactions and are especially useful

given the higher baud rate capability (256 kbaud).

CIRCC Datasheet(PDF) 52 Page - SMSC Corporation

CIRCC Datasheet(HTML) 52 Page - SMSC Corporation

Html Pages

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70

Datasheet Download

Link URL