IOP16 UART

UART and Baud Rate Generator

UART Programming Interface

• Interface mimics ACIA software interface address/control/status contents
  • ACIA datasheet
• Two addresses, Control/status and data access

Status Register (Read)

• Register Select = 0
• Bits

d0 = RDRF = Receive Data Register Full (1 = data is ready to read)
d1 = TDRE = Transmit Data Register Empty (1 = transmit is ready to send out data)
d2 = DCD  = Data Carrier Detect (0 = carrier present - hardwired)
d3 = CTS  = Clear to Send (0 = Clear to Send - ready to accept data - hardwired)
d7 = IRQ  = Interrupt Request (1 = Interrupt present)

Control Register (Write)

• Register Select = 0
• Bits

d1,d0 = Control (11 = Master Reset)
d6,d5 = TC = Transmitter Control (RTS = Transmitter Interrupt Enable/Disable)
d7    = Interrupt Enable (1=enable interrupts)

Data Register (Read/Write)

• Register Select = 1
  • Read = Read data from the data register (not implemented due to kbd removal)
  • Write = Write data to the data register

Example Code

Read character from UART

• Blocks until character is received
• Returns character in Reg1

RDUART		JSR	WTUARTRXRDY		WAIT FOR UART RX CHAR
		IOR	0X01		0X09	READ UART CHAR
		RTS				RETURN KBD DATA IN REG1
WTUARTRXRDY	IOR	0X01		0X08	READ UART STATUS
		ARI	0X01		0X01	RX RDY BIT
		BEZ	WTUARTRXRDY		LOOP UNTIL CHAR PRESENT
		RTS			

Write character to UART

• Pass character to write in Reg0
• Destroys Reg1
• Blocks until character can be written

WRUART		JSR	WTUARTTXBSY		WRITE REG1 TO THE UART TX
		IOW	0X01		0X09	
		RTS			
WTUARTTXBSY	IOR	0X00		0X08	WRITE REG1 OUT UART
		ARI	0X00		0X02	TX EMPTY BIT
		BEZ	WTUARTTXBSY		LOOP WHILE NOT EMPTY
		RTS			

Baud Rate Generator for buffered UART

• Assumes 50 MHz clock
• Pass Baud Rate in BAUD_RATE generic as integer value (300, 9600, 115,200)
  • Legal values are 115200, 38400, 19200, 9600, 4800, 2400, 1200, 600, 300

UART and Baud Rate Generator VHDL Entities

• Code to add UART to the IOP16 top file

Pins

• Add to top level entity

-- UART
rxd1      : in std_logic := '1';  -- Hardware Handshake needed
txd1      : out std_logic;
cts1      : in std_logic := '1';
rts1      : out std_logic;
serSelect : in std_logic := '1';  -- Jumper with pullup in FPGA for selecting serial between ACIA (installed) and VDU (removed)

Signals

• Add signals to architecture section

-- Decodes/Strobes
...
  signal w_wrUart				:	std_logic;
  signal w_rdUart				:	std_logic;

-- Interfaces
..
  signal w_UartDataOut			:	std_logic_vector(7 downto 0);

-- Serial clock enable
  signal W_serialEn      		: std_logic;		-- 16x baud rate clock	

UART Entity

-- 6850 style UART
UART: entity work.bufferedUART
  port map (
    clk     => i_clk,
    -- Strobes
    n_wr    => not w_wrUart,
    n_rd    => not w_rdUart,
    -- CPU 
    regSel  => w_periphAdr(0),
    dataIn  => w_periphOut,
    dataOut => w_UartDataOut,
    -- Clock strobes
    rxClkEn => serialEn,
    txClkEn => serialEn,
   -- Serial I/F
    rxd     => rxd1,
    txd     => txd1,
    n_rts   => rts1,
    n_cts   => cts1
  );

Baud Rate Generator Entity

-- ____________________________________________________________________________________
-- Baud Rate Generator as an entity with passed baud rate
-- Legal BAUD_RATE values are 115200, 38400, 19200, 9600, 4800, 2400, 1200, 600, 300
BaudRateGen : entity work.BaudRate6850
  GENERIC map (
    BAUD_RATE	=>  115200
  )
  PORT map (
    i_CLOCK_50	=> i_clk,
    o_serialEn	=> w_serialEn
);

Add Code

-- Peripheral bus read mux
  w_periphIn <=	...
...
   w_UartDataOut when w_periphAdr(7 downto 1) = "0000100" else
---

-- Strobes/Selects
 ...
  w_wrUart <= '1' when ((w_periphAdr(7 downto 1)="0000100") and (w_periphWr = '1')) else '0';
  w_rdUart <= '1' when ((w_periphAdr(7 downto 1)="0000100") and (w_periphRd = '1')) else '0';

FPGA Resources (EP4CE15)

• UART
  • Logic Cells: 183
  • Registers: 94
  • Memory Bits: 128
  • M9Ks: 1
• Baud Rate Generator
  • Logic Cells: 14
  • Registers: 13
  • Memory Bits: 0
  • M9Ks: 0