PIC18CXX2
as a half duplex synchronous system that can commu-
nicate with peripheral devices, such as A/D or D/A inte-
grated circuits, Serial EEPROMs, etc.
15.0 ADDRESSABLE UNIVERSAL
SYNCHRONOUS
ASYNCHRONOUS RECEIVER
TRANSMITTER (USART)
The USART can be configured in the following modes:
• Asynchronous (full duplex)
The Universal Synchronous Asynchronous Receiver
Transmitter (USART) module is one of the two serial
I/O modules. (USART is also known as a Serial Com-
munications Interface or SCI). The USART can be con-
figured as a full duplex asynchronous system that can
communicate with peripheral devices, such as CRT ter-
minals and personal computers, or it can be configured
• Synchronous - Master (half duplex)
• Synchronous - Slave (half duplex)
Bit SPEN (RCSTA<7>) and bits TRISC<7:6> have to
be set in order to configure pins RC6/TX/CK and
RC7/RX/DT as the Universal Synchronous Asynchro-
nous Receiver Transmitter.
Register 15-1: TXSTA: Transmit Status and Control Register
R/W-0
CSRC
R/W-0
TX9
R/W-0
TXEN
R/W-0
SYNC
U-0
—
R/W-0
BRGH
R-1
R/W-0
TX9D
TRMT
bit 7
bit 0
bit 7
CSRC: Clock Source Select bit
Asynchronous mode
Don’t care
Synchronous mode
1= Master mode (Clock generated internally from BRG)
0= Slave mode (Clock from external source)
bit 6
bit 5
TX9: 9-bit Transmit Enable bit
1= Selects 9-bit transmission
0= Selects 8-bit transmission
TXEN: Transmit Enable bit
1= Transmit enabled
0= Transmit disabled
Note: SREN/CREN overrides TXEN in SYNC mode.
bit 4
SYNC: USART Mode Select bit
1= Synchronous mode
0= Asynchronous mode
bit 3
bit 2
Unimplemented: Read as '0'
BRGH: High Baud Rate Select bit
Asynchronous mode
1= High speed
0= Low speed
Synchronous mode
Unused in this mode
bit 1
bit 0
TRMT: Transmit Shift Register Status bit
1= TSR empty
0= TSR full
TX9D: 9th bit of transmit data. Can be Address/Data bit or a parity bit.
Legend:
R = Readable bit
W = Writable bit
’1’ = Bit is set
U = Unimplemented bit, read as ‘0’
’0’ = Bit is cleared x = Bit is unknown
- n = Value at POR reset
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Preliminary
DS39026B-page 151
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