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Product data sheet Rev. 5 — 12 August 2011 18 of 45
NXP Semiconductors
LPC2141/42/44/46/48
Single-chip 16-bit/32-bit microcontrollers
6.11.1 Features
• 16 B Receive and Transmit FIFOs.
• Register locations conform to 16C550 industry standard.
• Receiver FIFO trigger points at 1 B, 4 B, 8 B, and 14 B
• Built-in fractional baud rate generator covering wide range of baud rates without a
need for external crystals of particular values.
• Transmission FIFO control enables implementation of software (XON/XOFF) flow
control on both UARTs.
• LPC2144/46/48 UART1 equipped with standard modem interface signals. This
module also provides full support for hardware flow control (auto-CTS/RTS).
6.12 I
2
C-bus serial I/O controller
The LPC2141/42/44/46/48 each contain two I
2
C-bus controllers.
The I
2
C-bus is bidirectional, for inter-IC control using only two wires: a Serial Clock Line
(SCL), and a Serial DAta line (SDA). Each device is recognized by a unique address and
can operate as either a receiver-only device (e.g., an LCD driver or a transmitter with the
capability to both receive and send information (such as memory)). Transmitters and/or
receivers can operate in either master or slave mode, depending on whether the chip has
to initiate a data transfer or is only addressed. The I
2
C-bus is a multi-master bus, it can be
controlled by more than one bus master connected to it.
The I
2
C-bus implemented in LPC2141/42/44/46/48 supports bit rates up to 400 kbit/s
(Fast I
2
C-bus).
6.12.1 Features
• Compliant with standard I
2
C-bus interface.
• Easy to configure as master, slave, or master/slave.
• Programmable clocks allow versatile rate control.
• Bidirectional data transfer between masters and slaves.
• Multi-master bus (no central master).
• Arbitration between simultaneously transmitting masters without corruption of serial
data on the bus.
• Serial clock synchronization allows devices with different bit rates to communicate via
one serial bus.
• Serial clock synchronization can be used as a handshake mechanism to suspend and
resume serial transfer.
• The I
2
C-bus can be used for test and diagnostic purposes.
6.13 SPI serial I/O controller
The LPC2141/42/44/46/48 each contain one SPI controller. The SPI is a full duplex serial
interface, designed to handle multiple masters and slaves connected to a given bus. Only
a single master and a single slave can communicate on the interface during a given data
transfer. During a data transfer the master always sends a byte of data to the slave, and
the slave always sends a byte of data to the master.