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15 years ago

how to use UART with NIOS

so in an example in Altera's documentation on how to use the UART core, it shows this code as an example of how to print characters to the UART core as stdout. But it says right above the example th...
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15 years ago

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Well I'm not sure how I can edit the syslib properties but I did setup my uart as the stdout and stdin inside of the HAL.

I actually got the terminal working now, I had a hardware issue. We have another device that was fighting with the fpga for the TX0 pin and so I was not sending the correct voltage to my MAX device.

Thanks for your input.

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In 'syslib properties' window, choose 'System Library'. There you can find the options for 'stdout', 'stdin' and 'stderr', for which you can choose the UART port. Good luck.