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16 years agoGood practice for handling user commands in an FPGA
Hello In my applications, I am using an FPGA that is connected to a RS232. The PC sends commands including data that has to be processed by the FPGA. Sometimes the FPGA sends respond data if re...
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16 years agoIf your state machine is too complex, I suggest you consider instantiating a 8 bit microcontroller core within the FPGA.
There are free 8051, z80, PIC and AVR cores available. As an alternative, you can consider the Mico8 micro-controller core.