Embedded Peripherals IP User Guide

ID 683130
Date 10/24/2025
Public
Document Table of Contents
1. Introduction 2. Avalon® -ST Serial Peripheral Interface Core 3. SPI Core 4. SPI Agent/JTAG to Avalon® Host Bridge Cores 5. Intel eSPI Agent Core 6. eSPI to LPC Bridge Core 7. Ethernet MDIO Core 8. Intel FPGA 16550 Compatible UART Core 9. UART Core 10. Lightweight UART Core 11. JTAG UART Core 12. Intel FPGA Avalon® Mailbox Core 13. Intel FPGA Avalon® Mutex Core 14. Intel FPGA Avalon® I2C (Host) Core 15. Intel FPGA I2C Agent to Avalon® -MM Host Bridge Core 16. EPCS/EPCQA Serial Flash Controller Core 17. Intel FPGA Serial Flash Controller Core 18. Intel FPGA Serial Flash Controller II Core 19. Intel FPGA Generic QUAD SPI Controller Core 20. Intel FPGA Generic QUAD SPI Controller II Core 21. Interval Timer Core 22. Intel FPGA Avalon FIFO Memory Core 23. On-Chip Memory (RAM and ROM) Intel FPGA IP 24. On-Chip Memory II (RAM or ROM) Intel FPGA IP 25. PIO Core 26. PLL Cores 27. DMA Controller Core 28. Modular Scatter-Gather DMA Core 29. Scatter-Gather DMA Controller Core 30. Video Sync Generator and Pixel Converter Cores 31. Intel FPGA Interrupt Latency Counter Core 32. Performance Counter Unit Core 33. Vectored Interrupt Controller Core 34. System ID Peripheral Core 35. Intel FPGA GMII to RGMII Converter Core 36. HPS GMII to RGMII Adapter IP 37. Intel FPGA MII to RMII Converter Core 38. HPS GMII to TSE 1000BASE-X/SGMII PCS Bridge Core IP 39. Intel FPGA HPS EMAC to Multi-rate PHY GMII Adapter Core 40. Intel FPGA MSI to GIC Generator Core 41. Cache Coherency Translator IP 42. Altera ACE5-Lite Cache Coherency Translator

10.4.4. Data Bits, Stop Bits, Parity

The Lightweight UART core's parity, data bits and stop bits are configurable. These settings are fixed at system generation time; they cannot be altered via the register file.
Table 95.  Data Bits Settings
Setting Legal Values Description
Data Bits 7, 8, 9 This setting determines the widths of the txdata, rxdata, and endofpacket registers.
Stop Bits 1, 2

This setting determines whether the core transmits 1 or 2 stop bits with every character. The core always terminates a receive transaction at the first stop bit, and ignores all subsequent stop bits, regardless of this setting.

Parity None, Even, Odd

This setting determines whether the Lightweight UART core transmits characters with parity checking, and whether it expects received characters to have parity checking.

When Parity is set to None, the transmit logic sends data without including a parity bit, and the receive logic presumes the incoming data does not include a parity bit. The PE bit in the status register is not implemented; it always reads 0.

When Parity is set to Odd or Even, the transmit logic computes and inserts the required parity bit into the outgoing TXD bitstream, and the receive logic checks the parity bit in the incoming RXD bitstream. If the receiver finds data with incorrect parity, the PE bit in the status register is set to 1.

When Parity is Even, the parity bit is 0, if the character has an even number of 1 bit; otherwise, the parity bit is 1. Similarly, when parity is Odd, the parity bit is 0, if the character has an odd number of 1 bit; otherwise, the parity bit is 1.