
C165H
Architectural Overview
Data Sheet
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2001-04-19
PRELMNARY
hardware error detection capabilities has been included to increase the reliability of data
transfers. Transmit and receive error supervise the correct handling of the data buffer.
Phase and baudrate error detect incorrect serial data.
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Serial Channels
Serial communication with other microcontrollers, processors, terminals or external
peripheral components is provided by two serial interfaces with different functionality, an
Asynchronous/Synchronous Serial Channel (ASC) and a High-Speed Synchronous
Serial Channel (SSC).
ASC
families and supports full-duplex asynchronous communication at up to 2.25 MBaud and
half-duplex synchronous communication at up to 4.5 MBaud @ 36 MHz CPU clock.
A dedicated baud rate generator allows to set up all standard baud rates without
oscillator tuning. For transmission, reception and error handling 4 separate interrupt
vectors are provided. In asynchronous mode, 8- or 9-bit data frames are transmitted or
received, preceded by a start bit and terminated by one or two stop bits. For
multiprocessor communication, a mechanism to distinguish address from data bytes has
been included (8-bit data plus wake up bit mode).
In synchronous mode, the ASC transmits or receives bytes (8 bits) synchronously to a
shift clock which is generated by the ASC. The ASC always shifts the LSB first. A loop
back option is available for testing purposes.
A number of optional hardware error detection capabilities has been included to increase
the reliability of data transfers. A parity bit can automatically be generated on
transmission or be checked on reception. Framing error detection allows to recognize
data frames with missing stop bits. An overrun error will be generated, if the last
character received has not been read out of the receive buffer register at the time the
reception of a new character is complete.
SSC
supports full-duplex synchronous communication at up to 18 Mbaud @ 36 MHz
CPU clock in SSC master mode and up to 9 MBaud @ 36 MHz in SSC slave mode. It
may be configured so it interfaces with serially linked peripheral components. A
dedicated baud rate generator allows to set up all standard baud rates without oscillator
tuning. For transmission, reception and error handling 3 separate interrupt vectors are
provided.
The SSC transmits or receives characters of 2...16 bits length synchronously to a shift
clock which can be generated by the SSC (master mode) or by an external master (slave
mode). The SSC can start shifting with the LSB or with the MSB and allows the selection
General Purpose Timer (GPT) Unit
The GPT units represent a very flexible multifunctional timer/counter structure which
may be used for many different time related tasks such as event timing and counting,
pulse width and duty cycle measurements, pulse generation, or pulse multiplication.