The TL28L92 is conditioned to receive data when enabled through the command register. The receiver looks for a HIGH-to-LOW (mark-to-space) transition of the start bit on the RxD input pin. If a transition is detected, the state of the RxD pin is sampled each 16× clock for 7 clocks to 1.2 clocks (16× clock mode) or at the next rising edge of the bit time clock (1× clock mode). If RxD is sampled HIGH, the start bit is invalid and the search for a valid start bit begins again. If RxD is still LOW, a valid start bit is assumed and the receiver continues to sample the input at one bit time intervals at the theoretical center of the bit, until the proper number of data bits and parity bit (if any) have been assembled, and one stop bit has been detected. The least significant bit is received first. The data is then transferred to the receive FIFO and the RxRDY bit in the SR is set to a 1. This condition can be programmed to generate an interrupt at OP4 or OP5 and INTRN. If the character length is less than 8 bits, the most significant unused bits in the Rx FIFO are set to zero.

After the stop bit is detected, the receiver will immediately look for the next start bit. However, if a non-zero character was received without a stop bit (framing error) and RxD remains LOW for one half of the bit period after the stop bit was sampled, then the receiver operates as if a new start bit transition had been detected at that point (one-half bit time after the stop bit was sampled).

The parity error, framing error and overrun error (if any) are strobed into the SR from the next byte to be read from the Rx FIFO. If a break condition is detected (RxD is LOW for the entire character including the stop bit), a character consisting of all zeros is loaded into the Rx FIFO and the received break bit in the SR is set to 1. The RxD input must return to HIGH for two (2) clock edges of the X1 crystal clock for the receiver to recognize the end of the break condition and begin the search for a start bit.

This will usually require a HIGH time of one X1 clock period or 3 X1 edges since the clock of the controller is not synchronous to the X1 clock.