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Altera_Forum
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18 years ago

uart communications

Hey, I'm doing a project involving the DE2 FPGA, where I need to communicate with a pc via a serial interface. I have checked the pin assignments file and noticed there are only 2 pins associated wit...
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18 years ago

Hello,

I see the misunderstanding. 50 MHz clock oszillator isn't 50*2^20 like MByte, it is really

50e6. Or Terasic would be the first company to introduce a binary 50 MHz crystal.

But you don't need a nullmodem cable. I had written this first, but corrected after a few minutes.

Regards,

Frank