ATmega325PA Atmel Corporation, ATmega325PA Datasheet - Page 175

• Manufacturer Part Number: ATmega325PA
• Manufacturer: Atmel Corporation

20.5
8285D–AVR–06/11
USART Initialization
ATmega165A/PA/325A/PA/3250A/PA/645A/P/6450A/P
If used, the parity bit is located between the last data bit and first stop bit of a serial frame.
The USART has to be initialized before any communication can take place. The initialization pro-
cess normally consists of setting the baud rate, setting frame format and enabling the
Transmitter or the Receiver depending on the usage. For interrupt driven USART operation, the
Global Interrupt Flag should be cleared (and interrupts globally disabled) when doing the
initialization.
Before doing a re-initialization with changed baud rate or frame format, be sure that there are no
ongoing transmissions during the period the registers are changed. The TXCn Flag can be used
to check that the Transmitter has completed all transfers, and the RXCn Flag can be used to
check that there are no unread data in the receive buffer. Note that the TXCn Flag must be
cleared before each transmission (before UDRn is written) if it is used for this purpose.
The following simple USART initialization code examples show one assembly and one C func-
tion that are equal in functionality. The examples assume asynchronous operation using polling
(no interrupts enabled) and a fixed frame format. The baud rate is given as a function parameter.
For the assembly code, the baud rate parameter is assumed to be stored in the r17:r16
Registers.
P
P
d
even
odd
n
Parity bit using even parity
Parity bit using odd parity
Data bit n of the character
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