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GM16C550
GM16C550
ASYNCHRONOUS COMMUNICATIONS ELEMENT WITH FIFOs
Descriptions
The GM16C550 is an asynchronous communications element (ACE) that is functionally equivalent to the GM16C450, and addition-ally incorporates a 16byte FIFOs are available on both the transmitter and receiver, and can be activated by placing the device in the FIFO mode. After a reset, the registers of the GM16C550 are identical to those of the GM16C450. The UART performs serial-to-parallel conver- sion on data characters received from a peri-pheral device or a MODEM, and parallel-to- serial conversion on data characters received from the CPU. The CPU can read the com- plete status of the UART at any time during the functional operation.