FEATURES
s s s s s s s s s s s s 2 channel UART with Motorola µP interface 5 V, 3.3 V and 2.5 V operation Industrial temperature range Up to 5 Mbit/s data rate at 5 V and 3.3 V, and 3 Mbit/s at 2.5 V 16-byte transmit FIFO to reduce the bandwidth requirement of the external CPU 16-byte receive FIFO with error flags to reduce the bandwidth requirement of the external CPU Independent transmit and receive UART control Four selectable Receive FIFO interrupt trigger levels Software selectable baud rate generator Standard asynchronous error and framing bits (Start, Stop, and Parity Overrun Break) Transmit, Receive, Line Status, and Data Set interrupts independently controlled Fully programmable character formatting: x 5, 6, 7, or 8-bit characters x Even, odd, or no-parity formats x 1, 11⁄2, or 2-stop bit x Baud generation (DC to 5 Mbit/s) False start-bit detection Complete status reporting capabilities 3-state output TTL drive capabilities for bi-directional data bus and control bus s s s Phil...