Peripheral Simulation

For ABOV Semiconductor MC96F8208 — Serial UART

Simulation support for this peripheral or feature is comprised of:

• Dialog boxes which display and allow you to change peripheral configuration.
• VTREGs (Virtual Target Registers) which support I/O with the peripheral.

These simulation capabilities are described below.

Serial Channel Dialog

The Serial Channel dialog displays and allows you to edit the configuration of the Serial Interface.

• Mode displays and allows you to change the serial interface mode of operation (data length, synchronous or asynchronous).
• SCON (Serial Control Register) holds the control and setup information for programming the serial port.
• SBUF (Serial Interface Buffer Register) contains the transmit data to be sent or received data.
• SM2 (Enable Serial Port Multiprocessor Communication In Modes 2 and 3) is set to suppress a receiver interrupt (RI) if the received 9th data bit is 0.
• TB8 (Serial Port Transmitter Bit 9) is the 9th data bit to be transmitted for serial modes 2 and 3.
• REN (Receiver Enable) is set to enable serial data input.
• RB8 (Serial Port Receiver Bit 9) is set for serial modes 2 and 3 when a 9th bit is received. In serial mode 1, this is the stop bit.

BaudRate

• SMOD (Double Baudrate) is set to double the baudrate in all modes.
• RCLK (Receive Clock Enable) is set to use Timer 2 overflows for the receive clock. If reset, Timer 1 overflows are used.
• TCLK (Transmit Clock Enable) is set to use Timer 2 overflows for the transmit clock. If reset, Timer 1 overflows are used.
• Transmit Baudrate is the actual baudrate for transmitted data. It can be derived from the oscillator frequency, or generated by Timer 1 or Timer 2.
• Receive Baudrate is the actual baudrate for the serial channel. It can be derived from the oscillator frequency, or generated by Timer 1 or Timer 2.

IRQ

• TI (Transmitter Interrupt Flag) is set by hardware for each character frame transmitted. TI is cleared by software.
• RI (Receiver Interrupt Flag) is set by hardware for each character frame received. RI is cleared by software.

SIN VTREG
Data Type: unsigned int

The SIN VTREG represents the serial input of the simulated microcontroller. Values you assign to SIN are input to the serial channel. You may assign input using the command window. For example,

SIN='A'

causes the simulated microcontroller serial input to receive the ASCII character A. If you want to use the SIN VRTEG to simulate reception of multiple characters, you must be sure to delay for atleast one character time between successive assignments to SIN. This may be done using a signal function. For example:

signal void send_cat (void) {
swatch(0.01);  /* Wait 1/100 seconds */
SIN='C';       /* Send a C */
swatch(0.01);
SIN='A';
swatch(0.01);
SIN='T';
}

You may use the SIN VTREG to input more than 8 bits of data. For example,

SIN=0x0123

inputs a 9-bit value. This is useful if you use 9-bit serial I/O. In addition to the SIN VRTEG, the serial window allows you to input serial characters by simply typing. Serial characters that are transmitted byt the simulated microcontroller appear in the serial window.

SOUT VTREG
Data Type: unsigned int

The SOUT VTREG represents the serial output from the simulated microcontroller. Whenever the simulated serial port transmits a character, the value transmitted is automatically assigned to SOUT (which is read-only). You may read the value of SOUT to determine the character transmitted by your simulated program. For example,

SOUT

outputs the value of the last character transmitted. You may use the SOUT VTREG in a script to process transmitted data. For example,

signal void sout_sig (void) {
while (1)
  {
  wwatch(SOUT);     /* wait for something in SOUT */
  printf ("Transmitted a %2.2X\n", (unsigned) SOUT);
  }
}