Table of Contents

Introduction

This page gives an overview of UARTLite driver which is available as part of the Xilinx Vivado and SDK distribution.

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.

Source path for the driver:
https://github.com/Xilinx/embeddedsw/tree/master/XilinxProcessorIPLib/drivers/uartlite
Driver source code is organized into different folders. Below diagram shows the iicps driver source organization

uartlite
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-- Doc - Provides the API and data structure details
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- Examples - Reference application to show how to use the driver APIs and calling sequence
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- Source - Driver source files

Controller Features Supported:

• 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

Driver Supported Features

The UARTLite Standalone driver support the below things.
All Controller Features supported.

Known issues and Limitations

• None.

Test cases

Refer below pah for testing different examples for each feature of the IP.
https://github.com/Xilinx/embeddedsw/tree/master/XilinxProcessorIPLib/drivers/uartlite/examples

ChangeLog

2017.1
Summary:

• uartlite: Added xil_printf statement in examples.
• uartlite: Updated makefile.
• uartlite: Added readme.txt file to generate doxygen for examples

Commits:

• 161c1b8 uartlite: Added xil_printf statement in examples.
• 4ba7f29 uartlite: Updated makefile.
• c3c4385 uartlite: Added readme.txt file to generate doxygen for examples

2017.2

• None

2017.3

• None

2017.4

• None

2018.1

• None

2018.2

• None

2018.3

• None

2019.1

• None

2019.2

• None

2020.1

• • Summary
    • drivers: Fix makefiles issue for windows
  • Commits
    • drivers: Fix makefiles issue for windows

2020.2

• Summary
  • uartlite: Modify Makefile to support parallel make execution
• Commitsuartlite: Modify Makefile to support parallel make executionNone