SAM3S8/SD8 Software Package: Working with USART

SAM3S8/SD8 Software Package 1.2

# Working with USART
[Working with SAM3S8/SD8 Peripherals]

Collaboration diagram for Working with USART:

The USART driver provides the interface to configure and use the USART peripheral.

The USART supports several kinds of comminication modes such as full-duplex asynchronous/ synchronous serial commnunication,RS485 with driver control signal,ISO7816,SPI and Test modes.

To start a USART transfer with PDC support, the user could follow these steps:

- Configure USART with expected mode and baudrate(see USART_Configure), which could be done by:
  1. Resetting and disabling transmitter and receiver by setting US_CR(Control Register).
  2. Conifguring the USART in a specific mode by setting USART_MODE bits in US_MR(Mode Register)
  3. Setting baudrate which is different from mode to mode.
- Enable transmitter or receiver respectively by set US_CR_TXEN or US_CR_RXEN in US_CR.
- Read from or write to the peripheral with USART_ReadBuffer or USART_WriteBuffer. These operations could be done by polling or interruption.
- For polling, check the status bit US_CSR_ENDRX/US_CSR_RXBUFF (READ) or US_CSR_ENDTX/ US_CSR_TXBUFE (WRITE).
- For interruption,"enable" the status bit through US_IER and realize the hanler with USARTx_IrqHandler according to IRQ vector table which is defined in board_cstartup_<toolchain>.c To enable the interruption of USART,it should be configured with priority and enabled first through NVIC .

For more accurate information, please look at the USART section of the Datasheet.

Related files :
usart.c
usart.h

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