24.5.5 USART Status Register

This flag is set to ‘1’ when there is unread data in the receive buffer and cleared when the receive buffer is empty (i.e. does not contain any unread data). When the receiver is disabled, the receive buffer will be flushed and consequently, the RXCIF will become '0'.

When interrupt-driven data reception is used, the receive complete interrupt routine must read the received data from RXDATA in order to clear the RXCIF. If not, a new interrupt will occur directly after the return from the current interrupt.

This flag is set when the entire frame in the Transmit Shift register has been shifted out and there are no new data in the transmit buffer (TXDATA).

This flag is automatically cleared when the transmit complete interrupt vector is executed. The flag can also be cleared by writing a ‘1’ to its bit location.

The DREIF indicates if the transmit buffer (TXDATA) is ready to receive new data. The flag is set to ‘1’ when the transmit buffer is empty and is ‘0’ when the transmit buffer contains data to be transmitted that has not yet been moved into the Shift register. DREIF is set after a Reset to indicate that the transmitter is ready. Always write this bit to ‘0’ when writing the STATUS register.

DREIF is cleared to ‘0’ by writing TXDATAL. When interrupt-driven data transmission is used, the Data Register Empty interrupt routine must either write new data to TXDATA in order to clear DREIF or disable the Data Register Empty interrupt. If not, a new interrupt will occur directly after the return from the current interrupt.

The RXSIF flag indicates a valid Start condition on RxD line. The flag is set when the system is in standby modes and a high (IDLE) to low (START) valid transition is detected on the RxD line. If the start detection is not enabled, the RXSIF will always be read as '0'. This flag can only be cleared by writing a ‘1’ to its bit location. This flag is not used in the Master SPI mode operation.

This bit is set when the auto-baud is enabled and the sync field bit time is too fast or too slow to give a valid baud setting. It will also be set when USART is set to LINAUTO mode and the SYNC character differ from data value 0x55.

Writing a ‘1’ to this bit will clear the flag and bring the USART back to Idle state.

This bit is intended for USART configured to LINAUTO receive mode. The break detector has a fixed threshold of 11 bits low for a Break to be detected. The BDF bit is set after a valid BREAK and SYNC character is detected. The bit is automatically cleared when next data is received. The bit will behave identically when USART is set to GENAUTO mode. In NORMAL or CLK2X receive mode, the BDF bit is unused.

This bit is cleared by writing a ‘1’ to it.

Writing this bit to ‘1’ will register the next low and high transition on RxD line as a Break character. This can be used to wait for a Break character of arbitrary width. Combined with USART set to GENAUTO mode, this allows the user to set any BAUD rate through BREAK and SYNC as long as it falls within the valid range of the USARTn.BAUD register. This bit will always read ‘0’.