This page gives an overview of UARTLite BareMetal driver which is available as part of the Xilinx Vivado and SDK distribution.
Table of Contents
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Introduction
The LogiCORE™ IP AXI Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter (UART) Lite core provides between
UART signals and the Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture (AMBA®) AXI interface and also provides
a controller interface for asynchronous serial data transfer. This soft LogiCORE™ IP core is designed to
interface with the AXI4-Lite protocol.
Driver Sources
The source code for the driver is included with the Vitis Unified Software Platform installation, as well as being available in the Xilinx Github repository.
| Driver name | Path in vitis | Path in github |
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| uartlite | <Vitis Install Directory>/data/embedded/XilinxProcessorIPLib/drivers/uartlite | https://github.com/Xilinx/embeddedsw/tree/master/XilinxProcessorIPLib/drivers/uartlite |
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Note: To view the sources for a particular release, use the rel-version tag in github. For example, for the 2020.1 release, the proper version of the code is: https://github.com/Xilinx/embeddedsw/tree/xilinx-v2020.1/XilinxProcessorIPLib/drivers/uartlite |
The driver source code is organized into different folders. The table below shows the uartlite driver source organization.
Directory | Description |
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doc | Provides the API and data structure details |
data | Driver .tcl, .yaml and .mdd file |
examples | Example applications that show how to use the driver features |
| src | Driver source files, make and cmakelists file |
Note: AMD Xilinx embeddedsw build flow has been changed from 2023.2 release to adapt to the new system device tree based flow. For further information, refer to the wiki link Porting embeddedsw components to system device tree (SDT) based flow
The .yaml(in data folder) and CMakeLists.txt(in src folder) files are needed for the System Device Tree based flow. The Driver .tcl and .mdd files are for the older build flow which will be deprecated in future.
Driver Implementation
For a full list of features supported by this IP, please refer https://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/ip_documentation/axi_uartlite/v2_0/pg142-axi-uartlite.pdf
Features
• AXI4-Lite interface for register access and data transfers• Full duplex
• 16-character transmit and receive FIFOs
• Configurable number of data bits (5-8) in a character
• Configurable parity bit (odd or even or none)
• Configurable baud rate
Known Issues and Limitations
None
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