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ormation .This can be implemented as a hardware facility or U(S) ART(Universal(synchronous) asynchronous receiver/transmitter) relieving the processor (and the applications programmer) of this lowlevel, timeconsuming, detail. t is merely necessary to selected a baudrate and possibly other options (number of stop bits, parity, etc.) and load (or read from) the serial transmitter (or receiver) buffer. Serialization of the data in the appropriate format is then handled by the hardware circuit.Timing/counter facilities. Many application of singlechip microputers require accurate evaluation of elapsed real time .This can be determined by careful assessment of the execution time of each branch in a program but this rapidly bees inefficient for all but simplest programs .The preferred approach is to use timer circuit that can independently count precise time increments and generate an interrupt after a preset time has elapsed .This type of timer is usually arranged to be reloadable with the required count .The timer then decrements this value producing an interrupt or setting a flag ,when the counter reaches zero. Better timers then have the ability to automatically reload the initial count value. This relieves the programmer of the responsibility of reloading the counter and assessing elapsed time before the timer restarted ,which otherwise wound be necessary if continuous precisely timed interrupts were required (as in a clock ,for example).Sometimes associated with timer is an event counter. With this facility there is usually a special input pin , that can drive the counter directly. Timing ponents. The clock circuitry of most microputers requires only simple timing ponents. If maximum performan