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20 years ago

FIFOed Avalon Uart

I have posted the FIFOed avalon UART in the Hardware Projects area. It is the standard UART that comes with Nios but it has additional features such as FIFOs and hardware CTS fifoed avalon uar...
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15 years ago

If you need dma, you really want a uart that has a descriptor based interface - more like that seen on ethernet chips.

A software solution might be to put down a 2nd nios with minimal, tightly coupled code+data to act (effectively) as a progammable dma engine.