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13 years ago

interfacing Altera Cyclone 3 FPGA to a peripheral using UART

Hi everybody, i'm working in my 1st project in FPGA Altera Cyclone 3 (EP3C25) and i have to connect a peripheral that have only an UART interface to my FPGA. which interface of the FPGA board i...
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13 years ago

I dare say you need a UART interface on FPGA.

How to connect it depends on what are you implementing inside FPGA.

Talking strictly about connections, UART usually requires only a tx and a rx signal and possibly a RS232 transceiver.