MC68HC908MR8 Datasheet, PDF (257/372 Pages) Motorola, Inc – Microcontrollers

Serial Communications Interface (SCI)
Functional Description
13.4.3.1 Character Length
The receiver can accommodate either 8-bit or 9-bit data. The state of the
M bit in SCI control register 1 (SCC1) determines character length.
When receiving 9-bit data, bit R8 in SCI control register 2 (SCC2) is the
ninth bit (bit 8). When receiving 8-bit data, bit R8 is a copy of the eighth
bit (bit 7).
13.4.3.2 Character Reception
During an SCI reception, the receive shift register shifts characters in
from the PTB0/RxD pin. The SCI data register (SCDR) is the read-only
buffer between the internal data bus and the receive shift register.
After a complete character shifts into the receive shift register, the data
portion of the character transfers to the SCDR. The SCI receiver full bit,
SCRF, in SCI status register 1 (SCS1) becomes set, indicating that the
received byte can be read. If the SCI receive interrupt enable bit, SCRIE,
in SCC2 is also set, the SCRF bit generates a receiver CPU interrupt
request.
13.4.3.3 Data Sampling
The receiver samples the PTB0/RxD pin at the RT clock rate. The RT
clock is an internal signal with a frequency 16 times the baud rate. To
adjust for baud rate mismatch, the RT clock is resynchronized at these
times (see Figure 13-6):
• After every start bit
• After the receiver detects a data bit change from logic 1 to logic 0
(after the majority of data bit samples at RT8, RT9, and RT10
return a valid logic 1 and the majority of the next RT8, RT9, and
RT10 samples return a valid logic 0)
To locate the start bit, data recovery logic does an asynchronous search
for a logic 0 preceded by three logic 1s. When the falling edge of a
possible start bit occurs, the RT clock begins to count to 16.
MC68HC908MR8 — Rev 4.1
Freescale Semiconductor
Serial Communications Interface (SCI)
Technical Data
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