Intel IXC1100, IXP42X 10.4.10 Line Status Register

Intel® IXP42X Product Line of Network Processors and IXC1100 Control Plane Processor
September 2006 DM
Order Number: 252480-006US 353
Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transceiver (UART)—Intel® IXP42X product line and IXC1100
control plane processors
10.4.10 Line Status Register
Register Name: LSR
Hex Offset Address: 0xC800 0014 Reset Hex Value: 0x00000060
Register
Description: Line Status Register
Access: Read Only.
31 876543210
(Reserved)
FIFOE
TEMT
TDRQ
BI FE
PE
OE
DR
Register LSR (Sheet 1 of 2)
Bits Name Description
31:8 (Reserved)
7FIFOE
FIFO Error Status: In non-FIFO mode, this bit is 0. In FIFO Mode, FIFOE is set
to 1 when there is at least a parity error, framing error, or break indication for
any of the characters in the FIFO.
Note that a processor read to the Line Status register does not reset this bit.
FIFOE is reset when all error bytes have been read from the FIFO.
0 = Non-FIFO mode or no errors in receiver FIFO
1 = At least one character in receiver FIFO has errors
6TEMT
Transmitter Empty: TEMT is set to a logic 1 when the Transmit Holding
register and the Transmitter Shift register are both empty. It is reset to logic 0
when either the Transmit Holding register or the transmitter shift register
contains a data character.
In FIFO mode, TEMT is set to 1 when the transmitter FIFO and the Transmit
Shift register are both empty.
5TDRQ
Transmit Data Request: TDRQ indicates that the UART is ready to accept a
new character for transmission.
In Non-FIFO mode, The TDRQ bit is set to logic 1 when a character is
transferred from the Transmit Holding register into the Transmit Shift register.
The bit is reset to logic 0 concurrently with the loading of the Transmit Holding
register by the processor.
In FIFO mode, TDRQ is set to 1 when half of the characters in the FIFO have
been loaded into the Shift register or the RESETTF bit in FCR has been set to 1.
It is cleared when the FIFO has more than half data. If more than 64 characters
are loaded into the FIFO, the excess characters are lost.
4BI
Break Interrupt: BI is set to a logic 1 when the received data input is held in
the spacing (logic 0) state for longer than a full word transmission time (that is,
the total time of Start bit + data bits + parity bit + stop bits). The Break
indicator is reset when the processor reads the Line Status Register.
In FIFO mode, only one character (equal to 00H) is loaded into the FIFO
regardless of the length of the break condition. BI shows the break condition for
the character at the bottom of the FIFO, not the most recently received
character.
3FE
Framing Error: FE indicates that the received character did not have a valid
stop bit. FE is set to a logic 1 when the bit following the last data bit or parity bit
is detected as a logic 0 bit (spacing level). The FE indicator is reset when the
processor reads the Line Status Register.
The UART will resynchronize after a framing error. To do this, it assumes that
the framing error was due to the next start bit, so it samples this “start” bit
twice and then takes in the “data”.
In FIFO mode, FE shows a framing error for the character at the bottom of the
FIFO, not for the most recently received character.