Zilog Z8 Encore Serial Code Help

Hi:

I am looking for serial (UART 0) code examples\samples for the Z8
Encore devlopment board from Zilog. The source code sample provided in
their development package really didn't have anything in it relating to
Z8F642.

Does anyone have a link\source to serial (UART0 ...the one provided on
the development board)
for getting and receiving data vial the serial port.

Any and all help appreciated.


Thanks

Ali

"alijsyed" <alijsyed@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi:
>
> I am looking for serial (UART 0) code examples\samples for the Z8
> Encore devlopment board from Zilog. The source code sample provided in
> their development package really didn't have anything in it relating to
> Z8F642.
>
> Does anyone have a link\source to serial (UART0 ...the one provided on
> the development board)
> for getting and receiving data vial the serial port.
>
> Any and all help appreciated.
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Ali

Ali,

    The latest version of the ZDS IDE (4.9.6, I think) has a "ZSL-- Zilog
Standard Library" that has routines to talk to the serial port.  You may
want to take a look there.  It seemed kind of bloated to me, but it should
be a step in the right direction.
    There are three ways to get data into and out of the serial port on the
Encore chips: polling, interrupt-driven, and DMA-driven.  I've never used
the DMA for this, the interrupt mode works fine.

-Travis