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S3C2450X RISC MICROPROCESSOR UART
15-1
15 UART
1 OVERVIEW
The S3C2450 Universal Asynchronous Receiver and Transmitter (UART) provide four independent asynchronous
serial I/O (SIO) ports, each of which can operate in Interrupt-based or DMA-based mode. The UART can support
bit rates up to 3Mbps bps. Each UART channel contains two 64-byte FIFOs for receiver and transmitter.
The S3C2450 UART includes programmable baud rates, infrared (IR) transmit/receive, one or two stop bit
insertion, 5-bit, 6-bit, 7-bit or 8-bit data width and parity checking.
Each UART contains a baud-rate generator, transmitter, receiver and a control unit, as shown in Figure 15-1. The
baud-rate generator can be clocked by PCLK, EXTUARTCLK or divided EPLL clock. The transmitter and the
receiver contain 64-byte FIFOs and data shifters. Data is written to FIFO and then copied to the transmit shifter
before being transmitted. The data is then shifted out by the transmit data pin (TxDn). Meanwhile, received data is
shifted from the receive data pin (RxDn), and then copied to FIFO from the shifter.
1.1 FEATURES
RxD0, TxD0, RxD1, TxD1, RxD2, TxD2, RxD3 and TxD3 with DMA-based or interrupt-based operation
UART Ch 0, 1, 2 and 3 with IrDA 1.0 & 64-byte FIFO
UART Ch 0, 1 and 2 support Auto Flow Control with nRTS0, nCTS0, nRTS1, nCTS1, nRTS2 and nCTS2
signals
Supports high-speed operation up to 3Mbps (in case of using EXTUARTCLK, divided EPLL clock)