SPRSP07F June 2017 – December 2019 66AK2G12
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The Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter peripheral is 16550 standard compatible asynchronous communications element. The UART can be placed in an alternate FIFO mode. This relieves the CPU of excessive software overhead by buffering received and transmitted characters. The receiver and transmitter FIFOs store up to 16 bytes including three additional bits of error status per byte for the receiver FIFO.
There are 3 UART (UART_0, UART_1 and UART_2) modules in the device. Only UART_0 supports full modem control functions. Each UART can be used for configuration and data exchange with a number of external peripheral devices or interprocessor communication between devices.
The UART_i (where i = 0 to 2) include the following features:
The UART performs serial-to-parallel conversions on data received from a peripheral device or modem and parallel-to-serial conversion on data received from the CPU. The CPU can read the UART status at any time. The UART includes control capability and a processor interrupt system that can be tailored to minimize software management of the communications link.
For more information, see section Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter (UART) in chapter Peripherals of the Device TRM.