Lpc2000

At 07:31 PM 4/12/05 +0200, Anton Erasmus wrote:
>Since some of Philips's people seem to be reading this group. How many people
>think they should change the crappy PC compatible UARTs to something else ?
>UARTS that can generate interrupt when the last bit has been transmitted to
>make it easier to switch a RS-485 buffer for example. A proper 9 bit mode.
>The possibility to read how many characters are in the Rx or Tx FIFO ? etc.

I can see the utility of a proper 9 bit mode with an interrupt after last 
transmitted bit available.  On the FIFO side though the addition of a flag 
to indicate that the transmit FIFO was full along with an interrupt to 
indicate when it was say 1/2 full would be enough to keep the transmit 
buffer full under just about all conditions.  The receive side seems quite 
sufficient to me.

Another item that might be useful would be some LIN specific support, 
mostly more break detection support.

Robert


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