LM3S6C11 Datasheet, PDF (520/828 Pages) Texas Instruments – Stellaris® LM3S6C11 Microcontroller

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Universal Asynchronous Receivers/Transmitters (UARTs)
12.3.3
(UARTFBRD) register (see page 540). The baud-rate divisor (BRD) has the following relationship
to the system clock (where BRDI is the integer part of the BRD and BRDF is the fractional part,
separated by a decimal place.)
BRD = BRDI + BRDF = UARTSysClk / (ClkDiv * Baud Rate)
where UARTSysClk is the system clock connected to the UART, and ClkDiv is either 16 (if HSE
in UARTCTL is clear) or 8 (if HSE is set).
The 6-bit fractional number (that is to be loaded into the DIVFRAC bit field in the UARTFBRD register)
can be calculated by taking the fractional part of the baud-rate divisor, multiplying it by 64, and
adding 0.5 to account for rounding errors:
UARTFBRD[DIVFRAC] = integer(BRDF * 64 + 0.5)
The UART generates an internal baud-rate reference clock at 8x or 16x the baud-rate (referred to
as Baud8 and Baud16, depending on the setting of the HSE bit (bit 5) in UARTCTL). This reference
clock is divided by 8 or 16 to generate the transmit clock, and is used for error detection during
receive operations. Note that the state of the HSE bit has no effect on clock generation in ISO 7816
smart card mode (when the SMART bit in the UARTCTL register is set).
Along with the UART Line Control, High Byte (UARTLCRH) register (see page 541), the UARTIBRD
and UARTFBRD registers form an internal 30-bit register. This internal register is only updated
when a write operation to UARTLCRH is performed, so any changes to the baud-rate divisor must
be followed by a write to the UARTLCRH register for the changes to take effect.
To update the baud-rate registers, there are four possible sequences:
■ UARTIBRD write, UARTFBRD write, and UARTLCRH write
■ UARTFBRD write, UARTIBRD write, and UARTLCRH write
■ UARTIBRD write and UARTLCRH write
■ UARTFBRD write and UARTLCRH write
Data Transmission
Data received or transmitted is stored in two 16-byte FIFOs, though the receive FIFO has an extra
four bits per character for status information. For transmission, data is written into the transmit FIFO.
If the UART is enabled, it causes a data frame to start transmitting with the parameters indicated
in the UARTLCRH register. Data continues to be transmitted until there is no data left in the transmit
FIFO. The BUSY bit in the UART Flag (UARTFR) register (see page 535) is asserted as soon as
data is written to the transmit FIFO (that is, if the FIFO is non-empty) and remains asserted while
data is being transmitted. The BUSY bit is negated only when the transmit FIFO is empty, and the
last character has been transmitted from the shift register, including the stop bits. The UART can
indicate that it is busy even though the UART may no longer be enabled.
When the receiver is idle (the UnRx signal is continuously 1), and the data input goes Low (a start
bit has been received), the receive counter begins running and data is sampled on the eighth cycle
of Baud16 or fourth cycle of Baud8 depending on the setting of the HSE bit (bit 5) in UARTCTL
(described in “Transmit/Receive Logic” on page 519).
The start bit is valid and recognized if the UnRx signal is still low on the eighth cycle of Baud16 (HSE
clear) or the fourth cycle of Baud 8 (HSE set), otherwise it is ignored. After a valid start bit is detected,
successive data bits are sampled on every 16th cycle of Baud16 or 8th cycle of Baud8 (that is, one
bit period later) according to the programmed length of the data characters and value of the HSE
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