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14 years ago

using altera_up_avalon_rs232.h to set up rs232 communication

Hello. I've found this header file and I have been trying to use it to communicate back and forth between a PC and my development board, Altera DE1. To use functions that read and write charact...
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14 years ago

I don't know about those rs232 specific functions, but the driver should be integrated in the general HAL and you should be able to use standard input/output functions to read and write to the serial port instead of those functions.

Have a look at this document (http://www.altera.com/literature/hb/nios2/n2sw_nii52004.pdf) to learn about the HAL, and especially the section about character mode devices, pages 6-8 and over.