BeMicro FPGA-based MCU Evaluation Board

Hi Daniel,

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Some example code would be really great. :)

Actually, VHDL is just fine for me. This is the language that will be used eventually in my engineering course and it is used in the Programmable Logic department in the company that I work.

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Ok. I'm traveling this week and don't have my BeMicro with me. I'd like to check there are no synthesis warnings before I send you the code. Which version of Quartus are you using?

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It is exactly something like this I would like to do, since I don't have a connector to use something to communicate with the FPGA. I will probably have to learn how to addapt projects to use the serial communication and the hyperterminal instead of buttons.

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Did you test the above procedure works for you? Can you get characters to echo? If so, you can create an SOPC system containing a NIOS processor and regular UART and connect that to the RX/TX pins.

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But, following that tutorial I linked in my last post, I had a hard time assigning the pins with the Pin Planner. The pins I had designed didn't show up in the pin planner.

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Sounds like you might have had a logic error and your logic was synthesized away to nothing.

Try and implement the UART loopback and enable the VCP. That way you'll have made some progress.

Cheers,

Dave