COMMUNICATION SUBSYSTEM WITH AN AUTOMATIC ABORT TRANSMISSION UPON TRANSMIT UNDERRUN

摘要

A communication device comprises a microprocessor which feeds bytes to a universal synchronous receiver transmitter (USRT) 88. The USRT transmits the data serially, signal C2TXSO+. On an underrun (USRT empty before next byte in), the USRT transmits a sequence of flag bytes (01111110) and generates an underrun signal C2TXTXU+. This signal is fed to transmit underrun logic 92, where a shift register 350 generates a 1 signal which lasts long enough to convert the first two 0's in the flag byte sequence to 1's by OR gate 354. A sequence of 8 to 13 1's is therefore generated prior to the flag bytes, this 1 sequence indicating an underrun condition.