Improve UART resource usage

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Could anyone think of ways to further reduce the resource usage compared to the original coding approach ?

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library IEEE;
use IEEE.STD_LOGIC_1164.ALL;
 
entity tiny_rs232_tx is
    Port ( clk         : in  STD_LOGIC;
       bit_tick    : in  STD_LOGIC;
       data        : in  STD_LOGIC_VECTOR(7 downto 0);
       data_enable : in  STD_LOGIC;
       tx          : out STD_LOGIC := '1';
       busy        : out STD_LOGIC );
end tiny_rs232_tx;
 
architecture Behavioral of tiny_rs232_tx is
signal shift_reg  : std_logic_vector(9 downto 0) := (others => '1');
signal i_busy     : std_logic;
 
begin
    busy <= i_busy;
    with shift_reg select i_busy <= '0' when "0000000000", '1' when others;
 
clk_proc: process(clk)
begin
    if rising_edge(clk) then
        if i_busy = '0' and data_enable = '1' then
            shift_reg <= '1' & data & '0';
        end if;             
 
        if bit_tick = '1' then
            if i_busy = '1' then
                tx <= shift_reg(0);
                shift_reg <= '0' & shift_reg(9 downto 1);
            end if;
        end if;
    end if;
end process;
end Behavioral;

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[barry]

That's pretty sparse as is. About the only thing I see is that TX is a register. If you take TX out of the clocked process, you could eliminate one register.