##
-## This file is part of the sigrok project.
+## This file is part of the libsigrokdecode project.
##
## Copyright (C) 2012 Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>
##
##
'''
-UART protocol decoder.
-
-Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter (UART) is a simple serial
+UART (Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter) is a simple serial
communication protocol which allows two devices to talk to each other.
-It uses just two data signals and a ground (GND) signal:
- - RX/RXD: Receive signal
- - TX/TXD: Transmit signal
-
-The protocol is asynchronous, i.e., there is no dedicated clock signal.
-Rather, both devices have to agree on a baudrate (number of bits to be
-transmitted per second) beforehand. Baudrates can be arbitrary in theory,
-but usually the choice is limited by the hardware UARTs that are used.
-Common values are 9600 or 115200.
-
-The protocol allows full-duplex transmission, i.e. both devices can send
-data at the same time. However, unlike SPI (which is always full-duplex,
-i.e., each send operation is automatically also a receive operation), UART
-allows one-way communication, too. In such a case only one signal (and GND)
-is required.
-
-The data is sent over the TX line in so-called 'frames', which consist of:
- - Exactly one start bit (always 0/low).
- - Between 5 and 9 data bits.
- - An (optional) parity bit.
- - One or more stop bit(s).
-
-The idle state of the RX/TX line is 1/high. As the start bit is 0/low, the
-receiver can continually monitor its RX line for a falling edge, in order
-to detect the start bit.
-
-Once detected, it can (due to the agreed-upon baudrate and thus the known
-width/duration of one UART bit) sample the state of the RX line "in the
-middle" of each (start/data/parity/stop) bit it wants to analyze.
-
-It is configurable whether there is a parity bit in a frame, and if yes,
-which type of parity is used:
- - None: No parity bit is included.
- - Odd: The number of 1 bits in the data (and parity bit itself) is odd.
- - Even: The number of 1 bits in the data (and parity bit itself) is even.
- - Mark/one: The parity bit is always 1/high (also called 'mark state').
- - Space/zero: The parity bit is always 0/low (also called 'space state').
-
-It is also configurable how many stop bits are to be used:
- - 1 stop bit (most common case)
- - 2 stop bits
- - 1.5 stop bits (i.e., one stop bit, but 1.5 times the UART bit width)
- - 0.5 stop bits (i.e., one stop bit, but 0.5 times the UART bit width)
-
-The bit order of the 5-9 data bits is LSB-first.
-
-Possible special cases:
- - One or both data lines could be inverted, which also means that the idle
- state of the signal line(s) is low instead of high.
- - Only the data bits on one or both data lines (and the parity bit) could
- be inverted (but the start/stop bits remain non-inverted).
- - The bit order could be MSB-first instead of LSB-first.
- - The baudrate could change in the middle of the communication. This only
- happens in very special cases, and can only work if both devices know
- to which baudrate they are to switch, and when.
- - Theoretically, the baudrate on RX and the one on TX could also be
- different, but that's a very obscure case and probably doesn't happen
- very often in practice.
-
-Error conditions:
- - If there is a parity bit, but it doesn't match the expected parity,
- this is called a 'parity error'.
- - If there are no stop bit(s), that's called a 'frame error'.
-
-More information:
-TODO: URLs
-
-Protocol output format:
-
-UART packet:
-[<packet-type>, <rxtx>, <packet-data>]
+This decoder should work on all "UART-like" async protocols with one
+start bit (0), 5-9 databits, an (optional) parity bit, and one or more
+stop bits (1), in this order.
-This is the list of <packet-types>s and their respective <packet-data>:
- - 'STARTBIT': The data is the (integer) value of the start bit (0/1).
- - 'DATA': The data is the (integer) value of the UART data. Valid values
- range from 0 to 512 (as the data can be up to 9 bits in size).
- - 'PARITYBIT': The data is the (integer) value of the parity bit (0/1).
- - 'STOPBIT': The data is the (integer) value of the stop bit (0 or 1).
- - 'INVALID STARTBIT': The data is the (integer) value of the start bit (0/1).
- - 'INVALID STOPBIT': The data is the (integer) value of the stop bit (0/1).
- - 'PARITY ERROR': The data is a tuple with two entries. The first one is
- the expected parity value, the second is the actual parity value.
- - TODO: Frame error?
+It can be run on one signal line (RX or TX) only, or on two lines (RX + TX).
-The <rxtx> field is 0 for RX packets, 1 for TX packets.
+There are various standards for the physical layer specification of the
+signals, including RS232, (TTL) UART, RS485, and others. However, the logic
+level of the respective pins is only relevant when acquiring the data via
+a logic analyzer (you have to select the correct logic analyzer and/or
+the correct place where to probe). Once the data is in digital form and
+matches the "UART" description above, this protocol decoder can work with
+it though, no matter whether the source was on TTL UART levels, or RS232,
+or others.
'''
-from .uart import *
+from .pd import *
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