Developing a Full Duplex UART on the TMS320C3x

Texas Instruments

Published Date: 06/01/1997

Description

By using the general-purpose I/O pins in conjunction with two timers and an external interrupt one can develop a very flexible full-duplex UART in software. This document discusses the implementation of an interrupt-driven full-duplex asynchronous serial interface 9600-baud UART with 8 data bits 1 stop bit and no parity using the on-chip resources of the TMS320C3x.