Intel® Arria® 10 Hard Processor System Technical Reference Manual

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Date 8/28/2023
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22.5.4. Receive FIFO Overflow

During UART serial transfers, receive FIFO requests are made to the DMA whenever the number of entries in the receive FIFO is at or above the decoded level of Receive Trigger (RT) field in the FIFO Control Register (IIR_FCR). This is known as the watermark level. The DMA responds by fetching a burst of data from the receive FIFO. †

Data should be fetched by the DMA often enough for the receive FIFO to accept serial transfers continuously, that is, when the FIFO begins to fill, another DMA transfer is requested. Otherwise the FIFO fills with data (overflow). To prevent this condition, the user must set the watermark level correctly. †