Microcontroller with many UARTS

[Ian Caddy]

Hi,

Your other option is to connect to something like an Octal UART which 
provides 8 serial ports.  There is no reason that you couldn't connect 
to multiple of them as long as you had the processing power to service 
that many devices.

Examples are:

SCC2698B from Phillips
XR16L788 from Exar

regards,

Ian Caddy

Bogic Petrovic wrote:
> Motorola's QUICC MC68360 have six UARTs, and support for master+
> multislave mode.
> One mc68360 is master with cpu enabled, and
> other MC68360 (up to 32, I think, don't remember well, sorry)
> have no CPU (enabled) but communication controller RISC works
> and all SMCs and SCCs (two SMCs and four SCCs = six UARTs)
> is available.
> This means that you may have many UARTs with (many?) Motorola QUICC.
> Same possibility may have MPC8xx, I think, but I'm not sure.
> This one solution is provided only by Motorola's QUICC concept.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Bogic Petrovic
> 
> 
> 
> Steven Retz wrote:
> 
>> Does anyone know of a microcontroller with a lot of
>> UARTS on it (preferably a Motorola)?  If not does
>> anyone have any clues on how to connect say 16 or so
>> UARTS to a microcontroller?  Right now it is for my
>> curosity or something I would like to build for my
>> home, but maybe try to sell it.
>>
>> Steven Retz
>>
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