SERIAL COMMUNICATION INTERFACE (SCI)
MOTOROLA
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6.3
SERIAL COMMUNICATION INTERFACE (SCI)
The SCI provides a full-duplex port for serial communication to other DSPs, microproces-
sors, or peripherals such as modems. The communication can be TTL-level signals or,
with additional logic, RS232C, RS422, etc.
This interface uses three dedicated pins: transmit data (TXD), receive data (RXD), and
SCI serial clock (SCLK). It supports industry-standard asynchronous bit rates and proto-
cols as well as high-speed (up to 5 Mbps for a 40-MHz clock) synchronous data transmis-
sion. The asynchronous protocols include a multidrop mode for master/slave operation
with wakeup on idle line and wakeup on address bit capability.
The SCI consists of separate transmit and receive sections whose operations can be
asynchronous with respect to each other. A programmable baud-rate generator provides
the transmit and receive clocks. An enable vector and an interrupt vector have been in-
cluded so that the baud-rate generator can function as a general-purpose timer when it is
not being used by the SCI peripheral or when the interrupt timing is the same as that used
by the SCI. The following is a short list of SCI features:
• Three-Pin Interface:
TXD – Transmit Data
RXD – Receive Data
SCLK – Serial Clock
• 625 Kbps NRZ Asynchronous Communications Interface (40-MHz System Clock)
• 5.0 Mbps Synchronous Serial Mode (40-MHz System Clock)
• Multidrop Mode for Multiprocessor Systems:
Two Wakeup Modes: Idle Line and Address Bit
Wired-OR Mode
• On-Chip or External Baud Rate Generation/Interrupt Timer
• Four Interrupt Priority Levels
• Fast or Long Interrupts
6.3.1
SCI I/O Pins
The three SCI pins can be configured as either general-purpose I/O or as a specific SCI
pin. Each pin is independent of the other two, so that if only TXD is needed, RXD and
SCLK can be programmed for general-purpose I/O. However, at least one of the three
pins must be selected as an SCI pin to release the SCI from reset.
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