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16 years ago

Connecting to the COM port

Hello, good day to everyone! I own a BeMicro arrow kit and i've follow the embedded lab tutorial without problems (www.arrow.com/bemicro). Everything works fine on my system but i want to ...
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16 years ago

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I have a RS 232 UART inside my SOPC design but i can't configure it properly since i can't see anything on my HyperTerminal.

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Did you connect the RS232 UART to the respective FTDI Rx/Tx pins C8/D8? Did you select the virtual COM-Port assigned to the BeMicro RS232 channel in Hyperterminal? Did you set the same baud rate in Hyperterminal and your UART IP? Did you verify, e.g. with SignalTap II, that the UART is sending out correct frames to the TxD pin D8?