XR17V258
66MHZ PCI BUS OCTAL UART WITH POWER MANAGEMENT SUPPORT
AUGUST 2010
REV. 1.0.2
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
• Factory Automation and Process Control
• Instrumentation
• Multi-port RS-232/RS-422/RS-485 Cards
• Point-of-Sale Systems
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The XR17V258 (V258) is a single chip 8-channel
66MHz PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect)
UART (Universal Asynchronous Receiver and
Transmitter)
solution,
optimized
for
higher
FEATURES
performance and lower power. The V258 device with
its fifth generation register set is designed to meet the
• High performance 32-bit 66MHz PCI UART
• PCI 3.0 compliance
• PCI power management rev. 1.1 compliance
• EEPROM interface for PCI configuration
• 3.3V supply with 5V tolerant non-PCI (serial) inputs
• Data read/write burst operation
• Global interrupt register for all eight UART channels
• Up to 8 Mbps serial data rate
• Eight multi-purpose inputs/outputs
high
bandwidth
and
power
management
requirements for multi-serial communication ports for
system administration and management. The 32-bit
66MHz PCI interface is compliant with PCI 3.0 and
PCI power management revision 1.1 specifications.
The device provides an upgrade path for Exar’s
33MHz 5V and Universal PCI UART family of
products in a 144-pin LQFP package.
The V258 consists of eight independent UART
channels, each with set of configuration and
enhanced registers, 64 bytes of Transmit (TX) and
Receive (RX) FIFOs, and a fractional Baud Rate
Generator (BRG). A global interrupt source register
provides a complete interrupt status indication for all
8-channels to speed up interrupt parsing. The V258
device operates at 33/66MHz and features fully
programmable TX and RX FIFO level triggers,
automatic hardware and software flow control, and
automatic RS-485 half duplex direction control output
for software and hardware design simplification.
• A 16-bit general purpose timer/counter
• Sleep mode with wake-up Indicator
• Eight independent UART channels controlled with
■ 16C550 compatible register set
■ 64-byte TX and RX FIFOs with level counters
and programmable trigger levels
■ Fractional baud rate generator
■ Automatic RTS/CTS or DTR/DSR hardware
flow control with programmable hysteresis
■ Automatic Xon/Xoff software flow control
■ RS-485 half duplex direction control output
with selectable turn-around delay
NOTE 1: Covered by U.S. Patents #5,649,122 and #5,949,787
APPLICATIONS
• Remote Access Servers
• Storage Network Management
■ Infrared (IrDA 1.0) data encoder/decoder
■ Programmable data rate with prescaler
FIGURE 1. BLOCK DIAGRAM OF THE XR17V258
U AR T C hannel 0
64-b yte TX FIFO
T X[7:0]
RX[7:0]
AD[31 :0]
UA RT
C/BE#[3:0]
IR
Re gs
TX
& RX
EN D E C
PAR
BR G 64-b yte RX FIFO
FR AME#
RTS#[7:0]
TR D Y#
PC I L o cal
IR D Y#
U AR T C hannel 1
U AR T C hannel 2
U AR T C hannel 3
U AR T C hannel 4
U AR T C hannel 5
U AR T C hannel 6
U AR T C hannel 7
DTR#[7:0]
C TS#[7:0]
Bu s
STOP#
Interface
D EVSEL#
ID SEL#
Global
C onfiguration
R egisters
D SR#[7:0]
33/66MH z CLK
R ST#
P ERR #
SERR #
IN TA#
D CD #[7:0]
R I#[7:0]
Configuration
Space
Registers
PME#
EN IR
M PIO [7:0]
Multi-purpose
Inputs/Outputs
16-bit
T ime r/Counte r
EECK
EE D I
X TAL1/C LK
X TAL2
E EPR OM
Interface
C rystal Osc/B uffer
EED O
EECS
TMR C K
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