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8 years ago

Cyclone IV E, transferring data using serial port

Hello everyone, In a nutshell I have the following FPGA: http://fpga.redliquid.pl/images/ep4ce6/1.jpg (FPGA Cyclone IV E, ECP4E6), and what I want to do is to use the serial port. I've b...
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8 years ago

Hi again,

Can you explain or give a reference why I need to istantiate the Nios II and the SDRAM block? (I get of course why I need the UART bit). Is it because I need later to create the C program that process the inputs?