This application note demonstrates the implementation of an interrupt-driven UART, an on-chip peripheral block featured in Zilog’s Z8 Encore! XP and Z8 Encore! MC families of microcontrollers. This ...

Anyone who has worked with a microcontroller is familiar with using printf as a makeshift debugger. This method is called tracing and it comes with the limitation that it uses up a UART peripheral.

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The new NXP LPC11E37H and LPC11U37H microcontrollers, based on an ARM® Cortex™-M0 processor, include an "I/O Handler" peripheral offering designers the flexibility to add peripheral functionality at ...

This application note presents an interrupt-driven UART for Z8 Encore! XP® and Z8 Encore! MC™ microcontrollers. It describes the UART register description, the circular buffer implementation, as well ...