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YigalB1
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1 year ago
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DE10 communication with windows PC

I am looking for a way to communicate between a host PC (probably windows) and a project running on the DE10 lite. The software on the PC should send some information to the FPGA, then get a result a...
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    FvM
    1 year ago

    Hi,
    I must confess I'm using my own UART modules written from the scratch since many years, thus I didn't care for existing Quartus UART IP. Perhaps others want to add info about it.

    Regarding UART over JTAG, I know there have been some projects, I looked upon it many years ago but didn't found it useful for my purposes. Instead I'm using other JTAG debug functions during development and initial PCA test along with UART based debug interfaces. Also remote debugging through Ethernet and custom interfaces.

    Regards
    Frank

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FvM
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1 year ago

Hi,
I must confess I'm using my own UART modules written from the scratch since many years, thus I didn't care for existing Quartus UART IP. Perhaps others want to add info about it.

Regarding UART over JTAG, I know there have been some projects, I looked upon it many years ago but didn't found it useful for my purposes. Instead I'm using other JTAG debug functions during development and initial PCA test along with UART based debug interfaces. Also remote debugging through Ethernet and custom interfaces.

Regards
Frank

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YigalB1
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1 year ago
@FvM wrote:

Hi,
I must confess I'm using my own UART modules written from the scratch since many years, thus I didn't care for existing Quartus UART IP. Perhaps others want to add info about it.

Regarding UART over JTAG, I know there have been some projects, I looked upon it many years ago but didn't found it useful for my purposes. Instead I'm using other JTAG debug functions during development and initial PCA test along with UART based debug interfaces. Also remote debugging through Ethernet and custom interfaces.

Regards
Frank

Thank you Frank.

Using UART over JTAG could have been nice, since it is saving the FTDI device and wires to connect, yet there is no clear guidance so I think I will drop this idea, and go with UART on the side, as you did.

Would you share the UART you are using?