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14 years ago

StratixIII Dev Kit - Serial RS 232 Substitute?

I am working on porting a soft-core processor (JOP) on the StratixIII FPGA. The processor ‘listens’ for the program on the serial port. As this board does not have a serial port, is there an alternat...
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14 years ago

Thanks for the quick reply.

Yes in fact I was thinking of using the FTDI chip that was on board, but as you pointed out, sadly that's not possible.

What the JOP processor does is that it puts the program from the serial port onto the on-board memory. This question maybe too specific, but is there a way to program the memory (PSRAM in my case) directly through USB. Sorry if this is trival, but I'm new to this, as you might be able to tell.

Thanks for you help once again