MC68HC08GP32A Datasheet, PDF (141/258 Pages) Freescale Semiconductor, Inc – Microcontrollers

Functional Description
At the start of a transmission, transmitter control logic automatically loads the transmit shift register with
a preamble of 1s. After the preamble shifts out, control logic transfers the SCDR data into the transmit
shift register. A 0 start bit automatically goes into the least significant bit position of the transmit shift
register. A 1 stop bit goes into the most significant bit position.
The SCI transmitter empty bit, SCTE, in SCS1 becomes set when the SCDR transfers a byte to the
transmit shift register. The SCTE bit indicates that the SCDR can accept new data from the internal data
bus. If the SCI transmit interrupt enable bit, SCTIE, in SCC2 is also set, the SCTE bit generates a
transmitter CPU interrupt request.
When the transmit shift register is not transmitting a character, the PTE0/TxD pin goes to the idle
condition, 1. If at any time software clears the ENSCI bit in SCI control register 1 (SCC1), the transmitter
and receiver relinquish control of the port E pins.
14.4.2.3 Break Characters
Writing a 1 to the send break bit, SBK, in SCC2 loads the transmit shift register with a break character. A
break character contains all 0s and has no start, stop, or parity bit. Break character length depends on
the M bit in SCC1. As long as SBK is 1, transmitter logic continuously loads break characters into the
transmit shift register. After software clears the SBK bit, the shift register finishes transmitting the last
break character and then transmits at least one 1. The automatic 1 at the end of a break character
guarantees the recognition of the start bit of the next character.
The SCI recognizes a break character when a start bit is followed by eight or nine 0 data bits and a 0
where the stop bit should be.
Receiving a break character has these effects on SCI registers:
• Sets the framing error bit (FE) in SCS1
• Sets the SCI receiver full bit (SCRF) in SCS1
• Clears the SCI data register (SCDR)
• Clears the R8 bit in SCC3
• Sets the break flag bit (BKF) in SCS2
• May set the overrun (OR), noise flag (NF), parity error (PE), or reception in progress flag (RPF) bits
14.4.2.4 Idle Characters
An idle character contains all 1s and has no start, stop, or parity bit. Idle character length depends on the
M bit in SCC1. The preamble is a synchronizing idle character that begins every transmission.
If the TE bit is cleared during a transmission, the PTE0/TxD pin becomes idle after completion of the
transmission in progress. Clearing and then setting the TE bit during a transmission queues an idle
character to be sent after the character currently being transmitted.
NOTE
When queueing an idle character, return the TE bit to 1 before the stop bit
of the current character shifts out to the TxD pin. Setting TE after the stop
bit appears on TxD causes data previously written to the SCDR to be lost.
Toggle the TE bit for a queued idle character when the SCTE bit becomes
set and just before writing the next byte to the SCDR.
MC68HC08GP32A • MC68HC08GP16A Data Sheet, Rev. 1.0
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