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23.2.1. AVR USART vs. AVR UART – Compatibility
The USART is fully compatible with the AVR UART regarding:
Bit locations inside all USART Registers.
Baud Rate Generation.
Transmitter Operation.
Transmit Buffer Functionality.
Receiver Operation.
However, the receive buffering has two improvements that will affect the compatibility in some special
cases:
A second Buffer Register has been added. The two Buffer Registers operate as a circular FIFO
buffer. Therefore the UDR must only be read once for each incoming data! More important is the
fact that the Error Flags (FE and DOR) and the ninth data bit (RXB8) are buffered with the data in
the receive buffer. Therefore the status bits must always be read before the UDR Register is read.
Otherwise the error status will be lost since the buffer state is lost.
The Receiver Shift Register can now act as a third buffer level. This is done by allowing the
received data to remain in the serial Shift Register (see Block Diagram in previous section) if the
Buffer Registers are full, until a new start bit is detected. The USART is therefore more resistant to
Data OverRun (DOR) error conditions.
The following control bits have changed name, but have same functionality and register location:
CHR9 is changed to UCSZ2.
OR is changed to DOR.
23.3. Clock Generation
The clock generation logic generates the base clock for the Transmitter and Receiver. The USART
supports four modes of clock operation: normal asynchronous, double speed asynchronous, Master
synchronous and Slave Synchronous mode. The UMSEL bit in USART Control and Status Register C
(UCSRC) selects between asynchronous and synchronous operation. Double speed (Asynchronous
mode only) is controlled by the U2X found in the UCSRA Register. When using Synchronous mode
(UMSEL = 1), the Data Direction Register for the XCK pin (DDR_XCK) controls whether the clock source
is internal (Master mode) or external (Slave mode). The XCK pin is only active when using Synchronous
mode.
Below is a block diagram of the clock generation logic.
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