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Altera_Forum
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9 years ago

Streaming data from FPGA to PC--Cyclone V GT Development Board

I have the cyclone V GT dev kit. I would like to continuously stream data from the FPGA to my PC so I can save it. The stream doesn't need to be especially fast (only 10 KB/s or so). The board has bo...
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9 years ago

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UART suffices your need and you can either use USB-UART adapters or serial port on PC.

It is simple to write a program (In C, MATLAB, etc) to store your incoming stream.

There are many terminal emulators which save the serial port stream to files.

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Thanks for your reply!

I'm not too familiar with UART, and I can't seem to find documentation on it in the cyclone V GT development kit manual. There doesn't seem to be a UART port on the dev kit, so what port on the dev kit would I use?