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Date of release: 14 December 2004
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Contents
Philips Semiconductors
SC16C550B
5 V, 3.3 V and 2.5 V UART with 16-byte FIFOs
1
2
3
4
5
5.1
5.2
6
6.1
6.2
6.3
6.3.1
6.3.2
6.3.3
6.3.4
6.4
6.5
6.6
6.7
7
7.1
General description. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Ordering information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Block diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Pinning information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Pinning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Pin description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Functional description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Internal registers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
FIFO operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Autoflow control (see
Figure 5
). . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Auto-RTS (see
Figure 5
). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Auto-CTS (see
Figure 5
). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Enabling autoflow control and auto-CTS . . . . 12
Auto-CTS and auto-RTS functional timing . . . 12
Hardware/software and time-out interrupts. . . 13
Programmable baud rate generator . . . . . . . . 14
DMA operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Loop-back mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Register descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Transmit (THR) and Receive (RHR)
Holding Registers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Interrupt Enable Register (IER) . . . . . . . . . . . 19
IER versus Receive FIFO interrupt
mode operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
IER versus Receive/Transmit FIFO polled
mode operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
FIFO Control Register (FCR) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
DMA mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
FIFO mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Interrupt Status Register (ISR) . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Line Control Register (LCR) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Modem Control Register (MCR). . . . . . . . . . . 26
Line Status Register (LSR). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Modem Status Register (MSR). . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Scratchpad Register (SPR) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
SC16C550B external reset conditions . . . . . . 29
7.2
7.2.1
7.2.2
7.3
7.3.1
7.3.2
7.4
7.5
7.6
7.7
7.8
7.9
7.10
8
9
10
10.1
11
12
12.1
12.2
12.2.1
12.2.2
12.3
12.3.1
12.3.2
12.3.3
12.4
13
14
15
16
Limiting values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Static characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Dynamic characteristics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Timing diagrams. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Package outline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Soldering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Through-hole mount packages . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Soldering by dipping or by solder wave . . . . . 42
Manual soldering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Surface mount packages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Reflow soldering. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Wave soldering. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Manual soldering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Package related soldering information. . . . . . 44
Revision history . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Data sheet status. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Disclaimers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46