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

9.4.1.1.2. UART Device Structure

typedef struct altera_avalon_uart_state_s
{
  void*            base;            /* The base address of the device */
  alt_u32          ctrl;            /* Shadow value of the control register */
  volatile alt_u32 rx_start;        /* Start of the pending receive data */
  volatile alt_u32 rx_end;          /* End of the pending receive data */
  volatile alt_u32 tx_start;        /* Start of the pending transmit data */
  volatile alt_u32 tx_end;          /* End of the pending transmit data */
#ifdef ALTERA_AVALON_UART_USE_IOCTL
  struct termios termios;           /* Current device configuration */
  alt_u32          freq;            /* Current baud rate */
#endif
  alt_u32          flags;           /* Configuration flags */
  ALT_FLAG_GRP     (events)         /* Event flags used for 
                                     * foreground/background in multi-threaded
                                     * mode */
  ALT_SEM          (read_lock)      /* Semaphore used to control access to the 
                                     * read buffer in multi-threaded mode */
  ALT_SEM          (write_lock)     /* Semaphore used to control access to the
                                     * write buffer in multi-threaded mode */
  volatile alt_u8  rx_buf[ALT_AVALON_UART_BUF_LEN]; /* The receive buffer */
  volatile alt_u8  tx_buf[ALT_AVALON_UART_BUF_LEN]; /* The transmit buffer */
} altera_avalon_uart_state;