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

9.4.3. Register Map

Programmers using the HAL API never access the UART core directly via its registers. In general, the register map is only useful to programmers writing a device driver for the core.

The Intel-provided HAL device driver accesses the device registers directly. If you are writing a device driver and the HAL driver is active for the same device, your driver will conflict and fail to operate.

The UART Core Register map table below shows the register map for the UART core. Device drivers control and communicate with the core through the memory-mapped registers.

Table 88.  UART Core Register Map
Offset Register Name R/W Description/Register Bits
15:13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
0 rxdata RO Reserved 18 18 Receive Data
1 txdata WO Reserved 18 18 Transmit Data
2 status 17 RW Reserved eop cts dcts   e rrdy trdy tmt toe roe brk fe pe
3 control RW Reserved ieop rts idcts trbk ie irrdy itrdy itmt itoe iroe ibrk ife ipe
4 divisor 19 RW Baud Rate Divisor
5 endof-packet 19 RW Reserved 18 18 End-of-Packet Value

Some registers and bits are optional. These registers and bits exists in hardware only if it was enabled at system generation time. Optional registers and bits are noted in the following sections.

17 Writing zero to the status register clears the dcts, e, toe, roe, brk, fe, and pe bits.
18 These bits may or may not exist, depending on the Data Width hardware option. If they do not exist, they read zero, and writing has no effect.
19 This register may or may not exist, depending on hardware configuration options. If it does not exist, reading returns an undefined value and writing has no effect.