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16 years ago

Multiple UART instantiation

We have a customer that needs 12 UARTS in his design. Is there a UART core that we can instantiate 12 times in a relatively inexpensive FPGA?
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16 years ago

Probably. There are many different levels of UART, flow control and buffering will add lots of size and complexity. If you just want a dumb 2 wire (TX/RX) interface it would be very small and fit easily on a cheap cyclone.