EDN

An Interrupt-Driven UART for Z8 Encore! XP and Z8 Encore! MCUs

This application note presents an interrupt-driven UART for Z8 Encore! XP® and Z8 Encore! MC™ microcontrollers. It describes the UART register description, the circular buffer implementation, as well ...
Electronic Design

Use An On-Chip UART To Detect An Edge-Triggered Interrupt

Edge-triggered interrupts are useful in microcontroller (MCU) applications for processing asynchronous events like switch closures, level transitions, and pulses. However, low-cost MCUs offer limited ...
Embedded

Embedded Driver Development (3 Techniques)

A fundamental skill that embedded software developers need to master is understanding how to write drivers. Within an embedded system, there a typically two types of drivers: microcontroller ...
Electronic Design

Use PSoC GPIO And Interrupts To Resolve Optical Encoding Outputs

This article is part of the Ideas for Design Series: Vol. 3, No. 8. In many applications, accurately sensing the position of an electrically controlled mechanical device such as a motor is critical.
Design-Reuse

D16950 - ask for more from UART

Jun 2nd, 2014 -- DCD, celebrating our 15th anniversary, has released the D16950, which is an IP Core of a Uni-versal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter (UART), functionally compatible to the OX16C950.
EDN

An Interrupt-Driven UART for Z8 Encore XP

This application note demonstrates the implementation of an interrupt-driven UART, an on-chip peripheral block featured in Zilog’s Z8 Encore! XP and Z8 Encore! MC families of microcontrollers. This ...