Intel® PXA255 Processor Developer’s Manual 17-15

Hardware UART
17.5.6 FIFO Control Register (FCR)

The FCR, shown in Table17-10, is a write-only register that is located at the same address as the

IIR, which is a read-only register. The FCR enables/disables the transmitter/receiver FIFOs, clears

the transmitter/receiver FIFOs, and sets the receiver FIFO trigger thres hold.

This is a write-only register. Write zeros to reserved bits.

IID[00] 0 0 0 0 Fourth
Highest Modem Status Clear to send, data set ready, ring
indicator, received line signal detect. Reading the Modem Status register.
Non Prioritized Interrupts:
ABL 4 None Autobaud Lock
indication. Autobaud circuitry has locked onto
the baud rate. Reading the IIR register

Table 17-9. Interrupt Identification Register Dec o d e (S heet 2 of 2)

Interrupt ID bits Interrupt SET/RESET Function
3 2 1 0 Priority Type Source RESET Control

Table 17-10. FCR Bit Definitions (Sheet 1 of 2)

Physical Address
0x4160_0008 FIFO Control Register (FCR) PXA255 Processor Hardware UART
Bit 31 30 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
reserved
ITL
reserved
TIL
RESETTF
RESETRF
TRFIFOE
Reset ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 0 0 ? ? 0 0 0 0
Bits Name Description
31:8 — reserved
7:6 ITL
Interrupt Trigger Level (threshold) – When the number of bytes in the receiver FIFO equals
the interrupt trigger threshold programmed into this field and the received data available
interrupt is enabled via the IER, an interrupt is generated and appropriate bits are set in the
IIR. The receive DMA request is also generated when the trigger threshold is reached.
0b00 – 1 byte or more in FIFO causes interrupt (not valid in DMA mode)
0b01 – 8 bytes or more in FIFO causes interrupt and DMA request
0b10 – 16 bytes or more in FIFO causes interrupt and DMA request
0b11 – 32 bytes or more in FIFO causes interrupt and DMA request
5:4 — reserve d
3TIL
Transmitter Interrupt Level – Determines when interrupts or DMA requests are sent from the
transmit FIFO.
0 = Interrupt/DMA request when FIFO is half empty.
1 = Interrupt/DMA request when FIFO is empty
2 RESETTF
Reset Transmitter FIFO – When RESETTF is set to 1, all the bytes in the transmitter FIFO
are cleared. The TDRQ bit in the LSR is set and the IIR shows a transmitter requests data
interrupt, if the TIE bit in the IER is set. The Transmitter Shift register is not cleared and it
completes the current transmission.
0 = Writing 0 has no effect
1 = The transmitter FIFO is cleared