Initialise the UART. This puts the chip in a quiescent state.
Parameters:
pUART
- pointer to UART structure describing our device.
Precondition:
The base address for the UART must contain a valid value. Also the baud rate and hardware options must contain sensible values otherwise the defaults will be used as defined in ixUART.h
Postcondition:
UART is initialized and ready to send and receive data.
Note:
This function should only be called once per device.