UART

Function Description

• Features of UART

• High Speed UART (max baud rate 4MHz and DMA mode) and low speed UART (IO mode)
• UART (RS232 Standard) Serial Data Format
• Transmit and Receive Data FIFO
• Programmable Asynchronous Clock Support
• Auto Flow Control
• Programmable Receive Data FIFO Trigger Level
• DMA data moving support to save CPU loading

UART Interface Waveform: Interrupt mode and DMA mode

• Interrupt mode

Please check example uart & uart_stream_irq to check how to set interrupt mode.

/* send & recv one byte*/
serial_putc(sobj, *(pstr+i));
serial_getc(&sobj);

/* send & recv target length data use interrupt mode */
serial_send_stream(sobj, pstr, _strlen(pstr));
serial_recv_stream(&sobj, rx_buf, 8);

• DMA mode

If using high-speed UART, it is recommended to use DMA mode instead of interrupt mode to reduce the consumption of CPU resources. Please check example uart_stream_dma to check how to set DMA mode.

/* send & recv target length data use DMA mode */
serial_send_stream_dma(sobj, pstr, _strlen(pstr));
serial_recv_stream_dma(&sobj, rx_buf, 13);

• Interrupt + DMA mode for UART RX

For UART RX, the first byte data can be received by UART interrupt mode then the other data can be received by UART DMA mode. Please check example code as below.

void main(void)
{
    char temp[128];
    char temp2[8];
    int actual_len=0;
    rx_semaphore = xSemaphoreCreateCounting(0xFFFFFFFF, 0);
    DiagPrintf("===Receive start===\r\n");
    int32_t received;
    while(1)
    {
        serial_init(&serial, PA_7, PA_6);
        serial_baud(&serial, 115200);
        serial_format(&serial, 8, ParityEven, 1);
        serial_set_flow_control(&serial, FlowControlRTSCTS, 0, 0);
/*recv data use interrupt mode */
        received = serial_recv_blocked(&serial, temp2, 1, 500);
        if(received>0)
        {
            memcpy(temp+actual_len,temp2,received);
            actual_len += received;
            while(1)
            {
	 /*recv data use DMA mode */
                received = uart_recv(temp2,1,30);
                if(received>0)
                {
                    memcpy(temp+actual_len,temp2,received);
                    actual_len += received;
                    if(actual_len==16)
                    {
                        for(int i=0;i<actual_len;i++)
                        {
                            DiagPrintf("%02x ", temp[i]);
                        }
                        DiagPrintf("\r\n");
                        actual_len = 0;
                        break;
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        serial_free(&serial);
    }
    for(;;){/*halt*/}
}