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Altera_Forum
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20 years ago

can't run a project using the UART

Hi all-- I built a default "hello_world" project which references the "standard" example .ptf. I also chose the default setting to have a system library autogenerated. I then went into th...
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20 years ago

For anyone who cares, this problem seems to have been just caused by a misconfiguration of the terminal software I was using. Apparently the nios2-terminal software gets told to use whatever port is chosen for "stdout." My terminal software was misconfigured, so apparently when nios2-terminal tried to output:

nios2-terminal: (Use the IDE stop button or Ctrl-C to terminate)

...it didn't succeed, and responded with the "can't open uart" message.

I love being new. Not. http://forum.niosforum.com/work2/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/huh.gif

Brian