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Altera_Forum
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14 years ago

Uart data ready

Hi all, I am periodically sending data from LabView to my cycloneIII development kit (bemicro) and I want to check if there is data available to be read in NIOS II. Unfortunately, I have not be...
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14 years ago

Hi, Yes, rx and not tx ;-)

Yes, I am sure the NIOS doesn't contain any other iord_altera_avalon_uart_rxdata(uart_base)...

Labview sends the data through USB onto the BeMicro development board (containing a Cyclone III) and the data is sent when the user pushes a button, thus there is no continuos data stream.

I've read in the forum about issues with the interrupts and/or HAL drivers that could interfere with the STATUS bits, do you think there is potentially something along that line?

BTW, I'm using a mac with parallel desktop to run labview, nios & quartus, do you think that could be an issue? Unfortunately I don't have a pure windows machine with the proper software to test it...

Cheers,

Marek