FEATURES
I 2 channel UART I 5 V, 3.3 V and 2.5 V operation I 5 V tolerant on input only pins1 I Industrial temperature range I Pin and functionally compatible to 16C2450 and software compatible with INS8250, SC16C550 I Up to 5 Mbit/s data rate at 5 V and 3.3 V and 3 Mbit/s at 2.5 V I 16-byte transmit FIFO to reduce the bandwidth requirement of the external CPU I 16-byte receive FIFO with error flags to reduce the bandwidth requirement of the external CPU I Independent transmit and receive UART control I Four selectable Receive FIFO interrupt trigger levels I Software selectable baud rate generator I Standard asynchronous error and framing bits (Start, Stop and Parity Overrun Break) I Transmit, Receive, Line Status and Data Set interrupts independently controlled 1. For data bus pins D7 to D0, see Table 23 “Limiting values”. NXP Semiconductors SC16C2550B 5 V, 3.3 V and 2.5 V dual UART, 5 Mbit/s (max.), with 16-byte FIFOs I Fully programmable character formatting: N 5-bit, 6-bit, 7-bit or...