General description STA8089G
16/31 DocID030710 Rev 1
UART features
The UARTx (x = 1|2) are Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter that support much
of the functionality of the industry-standard 16C650 UART. The main features are:
Programmable baud rates up to UARTCLK / 16 (1.5 Mbps with UARTCLK at 24 MHz),
or up to UARTCLK / 8 (3.0 Mbps with UARTCLK at 24 MHz), with fractional baud-rate
generator
5, 6, 7 or 8 bits of data
Even, odd, stick or no-parity bit generation and detection
1 or 2 stop bit generation
Support of software flow control using programmable Xon/Xoff characters
False start bit detection
Line break generation and detection
Separate 8-bit wide, 64-deep transmit FIFO and 12-bit wide, 64-deep receive FIFO
Programmable FIFO disabling for 1-byte depth data path
These UARTs vary from industry-standard 16C650 on some minor points which are:
Receive FIFO trigger levels
The internal register map address space, and the bit function of each register differ
The deltas of the modem status signals are not available
1.5 stop bits is not supported
Independent receive clock feature is not supported
3.4.3 I2C
STA8089G includes an I2C interface configurable as master or slave.
3.4.4 MTU
The 2 Multi Timer Units provide access to eight interrupt generating programmable 32-bit
Free-Running decrementing Counters (FRCs). The FRCs have their own clock input,
allowing the counters to run from a much slower clock than the system clock.
The FRC is the part of the timer that performs the counting. There are four instantiations of
the FRC block in each MTU, allowing eight counts to be performed in parallel. The 32-bit
counter in the FRC is split up into two 16-bit counters.
3.4.5 WDT
Watchdog Timer (WDT) provides a way of recovering from software crashes. The watchdog
clock is used to generate a regular interrupt (WDOGINT), depending on a programmed
value.
The watchdog monitors the interrupt and asserts a reset signal (WDOGRES) if the interrupt
remains unserviced for the entire programmed period. You can enable or disable the
watchdog unit as required.
Note: Watchdog is stalled when the ARM processor is in Debug mode.