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20 years ago

accessing uart

hi guyz... i am using quartus-V5.0 and NIOSII IDE for my design on UP3kit... i want to access UART and i used the function in HAL library for NIOSII IDE altera_uart_read(alt_fd* fd, char* p...
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20 years ago

I can not find the function altera_uart_read on my system, but I guess it is the same as alt_avalon_uart_read.

This function is part of the hal device driver for the uart (please correct me if I am wrong).

To access files or character-mode devices you should use the newlib functions or the unix-style interface provided by the HAL.

Refer to "Nios II Software Developer's Handbook" and "Altera Embedded Peripherals Handbook" for more information.

--Wolf