Intel STRONGARM SA-1100 - Manual (Page 279)

SA-1100 Developer’s Manual 11-129
Peripheral Control Module
11.11.1.1 Frame Format
NRZ encoding is used by the UART to represent individual bit values. A one is represented by a
line transition and a zero is represented by no line transition.
Figure 11-30 shows the NRZ
encoding of the data byte 8b 0100 1011. Note that the byte’s LSB is transmitted first.
Each data frame is between 9 bits and 12 bits long depending on the size of data programmed, if
parity is enabled and if a second stop bit is enabled. The frame begins with a start bit that is
represented by a high to low transition. Next, either 7 bits or 8 bits of data are transmitted,
beginning with the least significant bit. An optional parity bit follows, which is set if even parity is
enabled and an odd number of ones exist within the data byte, or if odd parity is enabled and the
data byte contains an even number of ones. The data frame ends with either one or two stop bits as
programmed by the user, which is represented by one or two successive bit periods of a logic one.
Note that the receiver only tests for one stop bit per frame.
11.11.1.2 Baud Rate Generation
The baud or bit rate is derived by dividing down the 3.6864-MHz clock generated by the on-chip
PLL. The clock is first divided by a programmable number between 1 and 4097, and then by a
fixed value of 16. The receive baud clock is synchronized with the data stream using a digital PLL
each time the start bit is detected on the receive data line. Receive data is then sampled halfway
through each bit period by counting 8 of the 16 clocks, which are produced before the fixed divide
by 16 takes place. (See
Figure 11-29 .)
11.11.1.3 Receive Operation
The UART receives incoming data by using a serial shifter. It latches the frame, strips it of its start,
parity, and stop bits, and then places the data within receive FIFO. If parity is enabled, the number
of data bits, which is one, is counted as data and is extracted from each frame. Parity is then
checked by comparing this value to the stripped parity bit. Either odd or even parity is checked as
specified by the programmer. If a parity error is detected, the parity error bit is set in the FIFO entry
corresponding to the data value that caused the error. Additionally, if a logic zero is detected by the
receive logic where a stop bit was expected, the framing error bit is set in the FIFO entry
corresponding to the errant data. When the FIFO fills between one- to two-thirds full, an interrupt
or DMA request is signalled. If the FIFO is completely filled and the receive logic attempts to place
additional data within the FIFO, the overrun bit is set next to the last byte of data received within
the FIFO. Any data received while the FIFO is completely full is discarded.
Figure 11-30. NRZ Bit Encoding Example – (0100 1011)
Digital
Data
NRZ
Data
Bit
Value
1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0
LSB MSB