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16 years ago

Connecting the Altera UART port to a development kits uart port

Hi I am working on a bluetooth(BT) development kit. The BT kit has a RS232 serial interface. I program the BT IC using hyperterminal [AT commands]. Now I need to connect the altera stratix ep1s10f780...
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16 years ago

  • check the return value of the fopen call, just to be sure that it was opened correctly

  • you will only see the result of the printf after a line feed character. To begin with you should print a full line for each character received, just to check if anything is there

  • did you check the UART speed, number of bits and parity settings in SOPC builder?

  • can you use an oscilloscope to see if anything is happening on the serial link?