UART

Introduction

In order to facilitate user development, ROC-RK3399-PC Pro introduces two channels such as UART4 (reuse with SPI1) on the double-row extension interface of the board.

  • UART4 are TTL level interfaces.

  • UART4 maximum support baud rate 691,200.

  • Each subchannel has a 256-byte FIFO that can receive/send independently. FIFO interrupt can be programmed to trigger according to user needs

  • With a sub-serial port to receive FIFO timeout interrupt

  • Support initial bit error detection

DTS

In the case of UART4 configuration, the device tree opens UART0 nodes by default.

&uart4 {
    status = "okay";
};
&spi1 {
    status = "disabled";
};

Debug method

After the serial port is configured, the corresponding nodes of the hardware interface on the software are:

UART4：/dev/ttyS4

(1) The connection of hardware

Connect the TX of UART4 with the RX port and the RX and TX of the USB adapter.

(2) Open the serial terminal of the host

Open kermit at the terminal and set the baud rate:

$ sudo kermit
C-Kermit> set line /dev/ttyUSB0
C-Kermit> set speed 1500000
C-Kermit> set flow-control none
C-Kermit> connect

  • The /dev/ttyUSB0 is the device file for the USB adapter

(3) Send data

The device file for UART4 is /dev/ttys0.Run the following commands on the device:

Turn off serial echo：

busybox stty -echo  -F /dev/ttyS4

Send the data：

echo firefly test... > /dev/ttyS4

The serial terminal in the host receives the string “firefly test…”

(4) Receive data

First run the following command on the device:

cat /dev/ttyS4

Then enter the string “firefly test…”, the device side will see the same string.