Oxford Semiconductors, OX16PCI958

Eight-channel UART / PCI controller simplifies multi-port serial to PCI bus design.

News Release from: Oxford Semiconductor
10/03/2006

Combining eight high performance UARTs and a PCI compliant host interface in a single chip, the OX16PCI958 communications controller from Oxford Semiconductor provides designers with the means to dramatically simplify multi-port serial to PCI bus design.

An alternative to many dual chip solutions, the 160-pin QFP packaged device offers significant pcb space savings, and by supporting both 3.3V and 5.0V bus systems, this cost effective part enables the development of add-in cards with universal application appeal.

Compliant with the PCI local bus specification 3.0 and PCI power management specification 1.1 the highly integrated OX16PCI958 will benefit a wide range of PCI-based hardware, including PoS equipment, industrial automation systems and remote servers.

Software compatible with industry standard 16C550 types, the UART ports of the OX16PCI958 are easily configured to suit the needs of RS232 and RS422 applications. It offers deep FIFOs with tuneable trigger levels, hardware out-of-band flow control and a clock prescaler, enabling designers to optimise data flows and configure application specific data rates up to a maximum of 4.125Mega baud, using a 16.5Mhz clock.