UART/Autobaud Functional Description
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12.4.2 UART Mode With Autobauding
The UART modem module is enhanced with an autobauding functionality,
which in control mode allows automatically setting the speed, the number of
bits per character, and the parity selected (see Figure 12–7).
Figure 12–7. UART Data Format
Start
bit
5, 6, 7, or 8 bits of data according to LCR register
Parity bit
(see LCR
register)
1 or 2
stop bit
according
to LCR
register
12.5 UART/Autobaud Functional Description
12.5.1 UART/Autobaud Functional Block Diagram
Figure 12–8 shows the UART/autobaud (FSM stands for finite state machine).
Figure 12–8. Functional Block Diagram
TIPB
RX
TX
TX FSM
TX FIFO
Control
TIPB
interface
RX FIFO
Data exchanges
Controls
CLKGEN
Clocks to all blocks
Autobaud
RX
FSM
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