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Allwinner Technology CO., Ltd.

A13 Datasheet v1.30

December 10, 2012

17.

UART Interface

17.1.

Overview

The UART is used for serial communication with a peripheral, modem (data carrier equipment,

DCE) or data set. Data is written from a master (CPU) over the APB bus to the UART and it is

converted to serial form and transmitted to the destination device. Serial data is also received by

the UART and stored for the master (CPU) to read back.

The UART contains registers to control the character length, baud rate, parity generation/checking,

and interrupt generation. Although there is only one interrupt output signal from the UART, there

are several prioritized interrupt types responsible for its assertion. Each of the interrupt types can

be separately enabled/disabled with the control registers.

The UART has 16450 and 16550 modes of operation, which are compatible with a range of

standard software drivers. In 16550 mode, transmit and receive operations are both buffered by

FIFOs. In 16450 mode, these FIFOs are disabled.

The UART supports word lengths from five to eight bits, an optional parity bit and 1, 1.5 or 2 stop

bits, and is fully programmable by an AMBA APB CPU interface. A 16-bit programmable baud

rate generator and an 8-bit scratch register are included, together with separate transmit and

receive FIFOs. Eight modem control lines and a diagnostic loop-back mode are provided.

Interrupts can be generated for a range of TX Buffer/FIFO, RX Buffer/FIFO, Modem Status and

Line Status conditions.

The UART includes the following features:

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Compatible with industry-standard 16550 UARTs

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64-Bytes Transmit and receive data FIFOs

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DMA controller interface

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