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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

How are you supposed to drive the UART and the required protocol to interface the wireless module?

Do you plan to implement a Nios processor? In this case you need to instantiate the uart core in sopc builder and then you only need to write the software driver.

Otherwise you have to code everything in raw HDL, but this is definitely not a task for a beginner.