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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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14 years ago

Very true, I actually wrote a driver for our custom UART that we use on other products. I figured all I would need to do is add a timeout to the ALT_FLAG_PEND call in the fifoed_avalon_uart_read() function, but I would still need to figure out a way to pass the value of the timeout into the function.

I was focused on "fixing" the driver, so I hadn't yet considered the benefits of losing the stdio overhead if I just wrote my own functions. Might also save some data copying to go that route.

Thanks.