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16 years ago

How to communicate via RS-232 (UART) between board Altera de2 and RFID reader

Hi friends, I'm working on a project that aims to communicate between an Altera DE2 board (FPGA) with an RFID reader using the standard RS-232. I have some issues about the serial communicat...
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16 years ago

Hi,

1. You can use a Nios II Processor, operating system is not compulsory

2. You can use functions provided by the HAL (e.g. fwrite).

Have a look on section 6 (UART Core) of "Quartus II Handbook Version 9.0 Volume 5: Embedded Peripherals", they detail the core and explain the software programming model with example.

Jérôme