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21 years ago

Altera Avalon Uart performance problem

I have been testing the Altera Avalon Uart by sending data to it from a different machine. A program on the other machine sends 16kB of known data out its serial port which connects to the serial ...
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21 years ago

This post is supplemental to the previous one.

One thing that is causing me confusion when using the NIOSserial.c driver is the following.

Even when I'm not transmitting any characters, and only receiving them, the transmit_chars() routine is being called.

Why does this happen? Shouldn't this routine only be called when characters are ready to be sent out?

Any comments you might have in regards to these last questions will also help me out a lot.

Thanks,