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Hi i am trying to impliment the UART serial port megacore, Has anyone got an example bdf of this in use so I can see what inputs and outputs are needed, or can someone tell me what inputs and o...
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Honored ContributorThe said UART is mainly designed or usage with NIOS, as the Avalon interface indicates. In this enviroment, it should operate similar to an UART of at typical hardware processor.
Using this (or any other UART component) with a pure HDL design is a bit more difficult. It typically implies a state machine that waits for transmission of a character before the next one is scheduled, or a command interpreter connected to RxD.
