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20.9
Accessing UBRRH/UCSRC Registers
The UBRRH Register shares the same I/O location as the UCSRC Register. Therefore some special consideration
must be taken when accessing this I/O location.
20.9.1
Write Access
When doing a write access of this I/O location, the high bit of the value written, the USART Register Select
(URSEL) bit, controls which one of the two registers that will be written. If URSEL is zero during a write operation,
the UBRRH value will be updated. If URSEL is one, the UCSRC setting will be updated.
The following code examples show how to access the two registers.
Note:
As the code examples illustrate, write accesses of the two registers are relatively unaffected of the sharing of I/O
location.
20.9.2
Read Access
Doing a read access to the UBRRH or the UCSRC Register is a more complex operation. However, in most appli-
cations, it is rarely necessary to read any of these registers.
The read access is controlled by a timed sequence. Reading the I/O location once returns the UBRRH Register
contents. If the register location was read in previous system clock cycle, reading the register in the current clock
cycle will return the UCSRC contents. Note that the timed sequence for reading the UCSRC is an atomic operation.
Interrupts must therefore be controlled (e.g., by disabling interrupts globally) during the read operation.
The following code example shows how to read the UCSRC Register contents
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; Set UBRRH to 2
ldi
r16,0x02
out
UBRRH,r16
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; Set the USBS and the UCSZ1 bit to one, and
; the remaining bits to zero.
ldi
r16,(1<<URSEL)|(1<<USBS)|(1<<UCSZ1)
out
UCSRC,r16
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C Code Examples
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/* Set UBRRH to 2 */
UBRRH = 0x02;
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/* Set the USBS and the UCSZ1 bit to one, and */
/* the remaining bits to zero. */
UCSRC = (1<<URSEL)|(1<<USBS)|(1<<UCSZ1);
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