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15 years ago

How to connect PC Rs232 to CIII FPGA Pins?

I have cyclone III Starter board, with its HSMC connector occupied with a daughter card. I had my design done but I couldn't find a way to send data at run-time to the board from My PC. I am ta...
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15 years ago

The JTAG pins can't be used as regular I/O so you can't connect a RS232 converter to them and use it to communicate with thu PC. I think your only option is to do it through a USB blaster and the JTAG interface, using as an example the JTAG virtual interface component.