Forum Discussion

Altera_Forum's avatar
Altera_Forum
Icon for Honored Contributor rankHonored Contributor
14 years ago

Communication / USB Blaster Like RS232

I have a DSP Development Kit Cyclone III, but it doesn't have a RS232 and i need comunicate with nios to acces a data for the PIOs it's posible use the Physical USB-Blaster(No the Embedded) to comuni...
Altera_Forum's avatar
Altera_Forum
Icon for Honored Contributor rankHonored Contributor
14 years ago

--- Quote Start ---

Thanks for you answer Dave, and another cuestion what is the best option for the communication serial with this Development Kit?

--- Quote End ---

Does it have a 100-mil header for GPIO?

Buy an FTDI UM245R module from Digikey for $20 and it'll give you a USB-to-Serial interface to the board. The FPGA interfaces to the UM245R via an 8-bit parallel FIFO mode (8-bits data, and 4 control signals for the FIFO).

MATLAB can then talk to the board like its a serial port.

Cheers,

Dave