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Grorel
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7 years ago

Can the Cyclone V SoC UART Controller be used as RS485 ?

I have a Cyclone V SoC running in my product with Linux on the ARM. I uses UART0 controller on the HPS pins for the linux console mounted on /dev/ttyS0. The UART1 controller signals are linked to t...
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7 years ago

hi Johi and Fjumaah,

thanks for your answers.

I thought that this behavior were something usual, I see that I was wrong.

Well, I'll use the 16550 UART controller which contains an "sout_en" signal. This is just to bad to use an FPGA IP whereas almost 99% of the functionality is hard coded into the SoC.

Aurélien