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10 years ago

Cyclone V HPS UART, can't rx data

I can send RS232 data via HPS UART1 but unable to read data. The scope shows RS232 data on RX pin but test code can’t read any data from /dev/ttyS1 and nothing when I ‘cat /dev/ttyS1’ I can thi...
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10 years ago

Thanks for the reply. Trying to communicate from external RS232 device to Cyclone through HPS Linux application software. Problem is the RS232 pins that are wired to Cyclone are different from the default UART1_TX, UART1_RX pins that come up when you click "HPS I/O Set 0".

I can draw up a block diagram of pins/connections if you'd like to dig in more. Also if routing to pins that aren't the default HPS I/O pins isn't a possibility can look into different solution.