Preface ....................................................................................................................................... 6
1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................ 7
1.1 Purpose of the Peripheral .............................................................................................. 7
1.2 Features .................................................................................................................. 7
1.3 Functional Block Diagram .............................................................................................. 8
1.4 Industry Standard(s) Compliance Statement ........................................................................ 8
2 Peripheral Architecture ...................................................................................................... 10
2.1 Clock Generation and Control ........................................................................................ 10
2.2 Signal Descriptions .................................................................................................... 12
2.3 Pin Multiplexing ........................................................................................................ 12
2.4 Protocol Description ................................................................................................... 12
2.5 Endianness Considerations .......................................................................................... 13
2.6 Operation ................................................................................................................ 14
2.7 Reset Considerations .................................................................................................. 18
2.8 Initialization ............................................................................................................. 18
2.9 Interrupt Support ....................................................................................................... 18
2.10 DMA Event Support ................................................................................................... 20
2.11 Power Management ................................................................................................... 20
2.12 Emulation Considerations ............................................................................................. 20
2.13 Exception Processing ................................................................................................. 21
3 Registers .......................................................................................................................... 21
3.1 Receiver Buffer Register (RBR) ...................................................................................... 22
3.2 Transmitter Holding Register (THR) ................................................................................. 23
3.3 Interrupt Enable Register (IER) ...................................................................................... 24
3.4 Interrupt Identification Register (IIR) ................................................................................ 25
3.5 FIFO Control Register (FCR) ......................................................................................... 26
3.6 Line Control Register (LCR) .......................................................................................... 28
3.7 Modem Control Register (MCR) ..................................................................................... 30
3.8 Line Status Register (LSR) ........................................................................................... 31
3.9 Divisor Latches (DLL and DLH) ...................................................................................... 33
3.10 Peripheral Identification Registers (PID1 and PID2) .............................................................. 35
3.11 Power and Emulation Management Register (PWREMU_MGMT) .............................................. 36
Appendix A Revision History ...................................................................................................... 37
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