Design and implementation of uart on soc

International Journal For Research & Development in Technology
Volume: 2, Issue: 1, JULY-2014 ISSN (Online):- 2349-3585
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DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF UART ON SOC A.Dasthagiraiah1,N.Subramanyam2, E.Supraja3,Dr.H.K.P.Prasad4,K.V.Goutham5 1,2,3,5 Assistant Professors in Priyadarshini Institute Of Technology ,Nellore
4,Pricipal at Priyadarshini Institute Of Technology ,Nellore Abstract – Security is primary concern in our day-to-day life. Everyone wants to be as much as secure as possible. The UART (universal asynchronous receiver and transmitter) module provides asynchronous serial communication with external devices such as modems and other computers. The UART can be used to control the process of breaking parallel data from the PC down into serial data that can be transmitted and vice versa for receiving data. The UART allows the devices to communicate without the need to be synchronized. UART is a popular method of serial asynchronous communication. Typically, the UART is connected between a processor and a peripheral. To the processor, the UART appears as an 8-bit read-write parallel port that performs serial-to-parallel conversions for the processor, and vice versa for the peripheral. With the implementation of UART the serial communication is done in high data rate and no interrupts. Baud rate generator provides high data rate and interrupt controller handles all the interrupts. The UART serial communication interface device receives data and converts data from serial to parallel, where as the transmitter performs parallel to serial conversion. Key word:- SOC,UART I.INTRODUCTION The UART (universal asynchronous receiver and transmitter) module provides asynchronous serial communication with external devices such as modems and other computers. The UART can be used to control the process of breaking parallel data from the PC down into serial data that can be transmitted and vice versa for receiving data. The UART allows the devices to communicate without the need to be synchronized. UART is a popular method of serial asynchronous communication. Typically, the UART is connected between a processor and a peripheral. To the processor, the UART appears as an 8-bit read-write parallel port that performs serial- to-parallel conversions for the processor, and vice versa for the peripheral. The UART allows reliable data transfer at high speeds with its 16-byte first in, first out (FIFO) input register. The FIFO feature can buffer up to 16 bytes at a time, which improves serial communications by preventing data overruns in applications. The implementation of UART the serial communication is done with high data rate and no interrupts. The UART 16550 serial communication interface device
receives data and converts data from serial to parallel, where as the transmitter performs parallel to serial conversion. This thesis portrays a novel architecture of Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter. UARTs are used for asynchronous serial data communication between remote embedded systems. The UART is for interfacing computers or microprocessors to an asynchronous serial data channel. The receiver converts serial start, data, parity and stop bits. The transmitter converts parallel data into serial form and automatically adds start, parity and stop bits. The data word length can be 5, 6, 7 or 8 bits. Parity may be odd or even. Parity checking and generation can be inhibited. The stop bits may be one or two or one and one-half when transmitting 5-bit code. The UART can be used in a wide range of applications including modems, printers, peripherals and remote data acquisition systems. Utilizing the advanced scaled SAJI IV CMOS process permits operation clock frequencies up to 8.0MHz (500K Baud). Power requirements, by comparison, are reduced from 300mW to 10mW. Status logic increases flexibility and simplifies the user interface. The basic application of UART is shown in Figure 1.1.
Figure 1.1 Basic Application of UART This design can also be instantiated many times to get multiple UARTs in the same device. For easily embedding the design into a larger implementation, instead of using tri-state buffers, the bi-directional data bus is separated into two buses, DIN and DOUT. The transmitter and receiver both share a common internal Clk16X clock. This internal clock which needs to be 16 times of the desired baud rate clock frequency is obtained from the on-board clock through the MCLK input directly.

Paper Title:- DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF UART ON SOC (Vol.2,Issue-1) ISSN(O):- 2349-3585
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1.1 SYNCHRONOUS SERIAL TRANSMISSION Synchronous serial transmission requires that the sender and receiver share a clock with one another, or that the sender provide a strobe or other timing signal so that the receiver knows when to “read” the next bit of the data. In most forms of serial Synchronous communication, if there is no data available at a given instant to transmit, a fill character must be sent instead so that data is always being transmitted. Synchronous communication is usually more efficient because only data bits are transmitted between sender and receiver, and synchronous communication can be more costly if extra wiring and circuits are required to share a clock signal between the sender and receiver. A form of Synchronous transmission is used with printers and fixed disk devices in that the data is sent on one set of wires while a clock or strobe is sent on a different wire. Printers and fixed disk devices are not normally serial devices because most fixed disk interface standards send an entire word of data for each clock or strobe signal by using a separate wire for each bit of the word. In the PC industry, these are known as Parallel devices.
1.2 ASYNCHRONOUS SERIAL TRANSMISSION Asynchronous transmission allows data to be transmitted without the sender having to send a clock signal to the receiver. Instead, the sender and receiver must agree on timing parameters in advance and special bits are added to each word which are used to synchronize the sending and receiving units. When a word is given to the UART for Asynchronous transmissions, a bit called the "Start Bit" is added to the beginning of each word that is to be transmitted. The Start Bit is used to alert the receiver that a word of data is about to be sent, and to force the clock in the receiver into synchronization with the clock in the transmitter. These two clocks must be accurate enough to not have the frequency drift by more than 10% during the transmission of the remaining bits in the word. (This requirement was set in the days of mechanical tele-printers and is easily met by modern electronic equipment.) After the Start Bit, the individual bits of the word of data are sent, with the Least Significant Bit (LSB) being sent first. Each bit in the transmission is transmitted for exactly the same amount of time as all of the other bits, and the receiver “looks” at the wire at approximately halfway through the period assigned to each bit to determine if the bit is a 1 or a 0. For example, if it takes two seconds to send each bit, the receiver will examine the signal to determine if it is a 1 or a 0 after one second has passed, then it will wait two seconds and then examine the value of the next bit, and so on. The sender does not know when the receiver has “looked” at the value of the bit. The sender only knows when the clock says to begin transmitting the next bit of the word. When the entire data word has been sent, the transmitter may add a Parity Bit that the transmitter generates. The Parity Bit may be used by the receiver to perform simple error checking. Then at least one Stop Bit is sent by the transmitter.
When the receiver has received all of the bits in the data word, it may check for the Parity Bits (both sender and receiver must agree on whether a Parity Bit is to be used), and then the receiver looks for a Stop Bit. If the Stop Bit does not appear when it is supposed to, the UART considers the entire word to be garbled and will report a Framing Error to the host processor when the data word is read. The usual cause of a Framing Error is that the sender and receiver clocks were not running at the same speed, or that the signal was interrupted. II.BLOCK DIAGRAM OF UART Block diagram of UART is shown in Figure 2.1.
Figure:2.1 Block Diagram of UART 2.1TRANSMITTER A component, uart_tx is designed for transferring data using serial communication. Figure 2.2 shows the block diagram for the module uart_tx, which has clr and clk inputs used to reset and synchronize communication. A byte of data is input using tx_data[7:0]. When ready is asserted the byte of data is transmitted on the TxD output starting with the least significant bit first. After the transmission has completed, the transmit data ready pin, tdre, goes high.
Figure 2.2 Block diagram of Transmitter module Transmission begins with the TxD line transitioning from high to low for one bit time. This leading bit is called the start bit. The bit time depends on the baud rate. Immediately following the start bit, the first data bit, the least significant bit, transferred followed by the next, more significant bit until all eight bits of data have been transferred. Each bit remains on the TxD line for one bit time. After the most significant bit has been transferred, TxD goes high for one bit time. This trailing bit is called the stop bit. The state diagram for transmitting serial data is shown in Figure. 2.3

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. Figure 2.3 State diagram of UART transmitter The state machine starts in the mark state until the ready signal goes high. This state resets a signal for counting the number of bits transmitted, bit_count, to zero and asserts the tdre output high indicating that the component is not currently transmitting data. When the ready input goes high the state machine transitions to the start state for transmitting the start bit. Since the start bit is a logic low, TxD is set to zero, and must be held low for one bit time. A counter baud_count is used to count clock cycles until the bit time is reached, baud_count is reset to zero in start and tdre is brought low indicating that a transmission is in progress. On the rising edge of the clock, the next state is delay. The bit time counter, baud_count is incremented in the delay state and the state machine remains in the delay state while the baud_count is less than the bit_time. Bit_time is a constant number of cycles required for 0.104 milliseconds to Pass. Once the baud_count has counted up to a bit_time, execution continues to the shift state to transfer a data bit. The byte to transferred is stored in a buffer signal,txbuff[7:0]. In this case, the first data bit or least significant bit of the buffer, txbuff[0], is assigned to TxD in the shift state. Additionally, tdre remains low, txbuff is shifted one bit to the right, bit_count is incremented to count the number of bits transmitted, and baud_count is reset to zero. By shifting txbuff one bit to the right, txbuff[0] always contains the next bit to be transferred until all the eight bits have been transferred. On the next rising edge of the clock, the state machine transitions back to delay. Once again, baud_count is increment on each rising clock edge remaining in delay until one bit time has passed, when baud_count becomes equal to bit_time. Execution continues to shift, outputting the next bit and shifting the transfer buffer, txbuff. After TxD has been set to the next data bit in the shift state, the output remains the same while the state machine remains in the delay state for one bit time. Using a 25MHz clock to drive uart_tx, the bit_time is computed as follows. 25x106x0.104x10-3=2600(0xA28 in hex) Parameters involved: Baud_count: A counter parameter that increments at every positive edge of clock. Bit_time: The time for which each data bit must stay on the line. Bit_count: A parameter that keeps count of the no. of bits transmitted.
2.2 RECEIVER MODULE Receiving data is similar to transmitting data. Figure 2.4 shows the block diagram of the receiver. Eight bits of asynchronous data are input into RxD. Bits are shifted into the 8-bit shift register, rx_data[7:0], least-significant bit first. When rx_data[7:0] is full, the received-data ready flag rdrf, is set to 0 to signify that rx_data[7:0] contains a complete byte. The output rdrf is set to 0 by setting rdrf_clr to high. The framing error flag, FE, is set to 1 if the stop bit is not 1. This is one indication that the data on rx_data[7:0] may not be accurate. Fig shows the state diagram for the serial receiver.The state diagram in Figure 2.5 has the same states as the state machine developed for transmitting data. The transitions between these states are also the same. There is, however, one subtle, important difference. Instead of remaining in the start state for a whole bit time, the state machine transitions to the delay state after a half-bit time. Bit time is determined by the baud rate in the same way it was used in the transmitter.
Figure 2.4 Block diagram of Receiver module
Figure 2.5 State diagram of UART receiver Figure 2.6 illustrates the difference in timing between serially transmitting and receiving 8 bits of data.

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Figure 2.6 Timing differences between transmitting and receiving As stated earlier , the parameters used in design of an Rx module remains the same. A new parameter namely „half_bit_time‟ which represents half of the bit time. Due to the delay in transmission of data , the start bit appears only after half the bit time has elapsed. During transmission, the start bit is transmitted for an entire bit time just like the data bits and the stop bit. When receiving, by waiting only a half bit time after the start bit has been initiated, the data shifted into the shift register during the shift state is farthest away from the time the signal changes. That is, half way between the beginning and the ending time during which the bit is valid. The state diagram in Figure 2.5 starts in the mark state. The state resets a signal for counting the number of bits transmitted, bit_count, to zero and asserts the rdrf output low indicating that the data in rx_data[7:0] is not complete. When RxD goes low, signifying a start bit, the state diagram transitions to the start state it remains in the start state for one- half of a bit time, then transitions to the delay state. The bit time counter, baud_count is incremented in the delay state and the state diagram remains in the delay state while the baud_count is less than the bit_time. III.DEVELOPMENT OF CODE FOR UART IN ARDUINO The other end of the SOC model is an embedded core. In this project it is taken as an ARDUINO controller. Arduino is an open source single board microcontroller, descendant of the open source wiring platform, designed to make the process of using electronics in multidisciplinary projects more accessible. The hardware consists of a simple open hardware design for the Arduino board with an Atmel AVR processor and on-board input/output support. The software consists of a standard programming language compiler and the boot loader that runs on the board.The code dumped into the microcontroller performs to and fro serial communication from the board. The algorithm for the corresponding code is given below:
 START
 INITIALIZE LCD
 READ_DATA (INPUT_PIN)
 PRINT_LCD(INPUT_PIN)
 WRITE_DATA(INPUT_PIN)
 STOP
3.1 FPGA IMPLEMENTATION FLOW DIAGRAM
Figure 4.1 Flow chart for FPGA Flow chart for FPGA is shown Figure 4.1. Initially the market research should be carried out which covers the previous version of the design and the current requirements on the design. Based on this survey, the specification and the architecture must be identified. Then the RTL modeling should be carried out in VHDL with respect to the identified architecture. Once the RTL modeling is done, it should be simulated and verified for all the cases. The functional verification should meet the intended architecture and should pass all the test cases. Once the functional verification is clear, the RTL model will be taken to the synthesis process. Three operations will be carried out in the synthesis process such as
 Translate
 Map
 Place and Route
The developed RTL model will be translated to the mathematical equation format which will be in the understandable format of the tool. These translated equations will be then mapped to the library that is, mapped to the hardware. Once the mapping is done, the gates were placed and routed. Before these processes, the constraints can be given in order to optimize the design. Finally the BIT MAP file will be generated that has the design information in the binary format which will be dumped in the FPGA board. 3.2 SIMULATION RESULT OF UART Figure 5.1 shows the simulation result of UART top level module. UART top module contains both transmitter module and receiver module..

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3.3 HARDWARE RESULT: COMMUNICATION BETWEEN TWO PROCESSORS USING UART PROTOCOL
Figure . Communication between FPGA based processor and Embedded processor IV.FUTURE SCOPE By using UART protocol we can communicate between only two processors. Hence to avoid this limitation we have introduced Modus protocol to operate various devices at a time. REFERENCE
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Mr. A.Dasthagiraiah- He completed his Master of Technology in Electronics and communication Engineering from Hindustan University in the year 2011 with specialization in Embedded Systems. He has given guidance to many students in their thesis work of M.Tech. He has also contributed in the research work on Embedded Systems with his papers. He has four years teaching Experience and presently working as Asst. Professor in Priyadarshini Institute of Technology,SPSR Nellore. He has done Bachelor's of Technology from JNTUA University in the year 2009 in Electronics and Communication Engineering Mr. N.Subramanyam- He completed his Master of Technology in Electronics and communication Engineering from JNTUA in the year 2011 with specialization in Embedded Systems. He has given guidance to many students in their thesis work of M.Tech. He has also contributed in the research work on Embedded Systems with his papers. He has four years teaching Experience and presently working as Asst. Professor in Priyadarshini Institute of Technology,SPSR Nellore. He has done Bachelor's of Technology from ANNA University in the year 2009 in Electronics and Communication Engineering Mr. K.V.Goutham- He completed his Master of Technology in Electronics and communication

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Engineering from JNTUA in the year 2012 with specialization in Embedded Systems. He has given guidance to many students in their thesis work of M.Tech. He has also contributed in the research work on Embedded Systems with his papers. He has four years teaching Experience and presently working as Asst. Professor in Priyadarshini Institute of Technology,SPSR Nellore. He has done Bachelor's of Technology from JNTUA University in the year 2010 in Electronics and Communication Engineering
Mrs. E.Supraja:- She completed her Master of Technology in Electronics and communication Engineering fromPBRVITS,Kavali in the year 2013 with specialization in VLSI Systems. She has given guidance to many students in their thesis work of M.Tech She has 6 years teaching Experience and presently working as Asst. Professor in Priyadarshini Institute of Technology,SPSR Nellore. She has done Bachelor's of Technology from JNTUA University in the year 2006 in Electronics and Communication Engineering.

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