Chapter 17
Universal Asynchronous Receiver/
Transmitter (UART)
This chapter describes the operation of the SiFive Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmit-
ter (UART).
17.1
UART Overview
The UART peripheral supports the following features:
• 8-N-1 and 8-N-2 formats: 8 data bits, no parity bit, 1 start bit, 1 or 2 stop bits
• 8-entry transmit and receive FIFO buffers with programmable watermark interrupts
• 16× Rx oversampling with 2/3 majority voting per bit
The UART peripheral does not support hardware flow control or other modem control signals, or
synchronous serial data transfers.
17.2
UART Instances in FE310-G000
FE310-G000 contains two UART instances. Their addresses and parameters are shown in
Table 48.
Table 48:
UART Instances
Instance Num-
ber
Address
div_width
div_init
TX FIFO
Depth
RX FIFO
Depth
0
0x10013000
16
3
8
8
1
0x10023000
16
3
8
8
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