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9 years ago

Is there a way to send periodic time updates to an FPGA over JTAG/UART?

Hi all, Would there be a way to periodically send NTP network time updates from my computer to a Nios II over JTAG/UART? I am aware that it is possible to install an embedded version of Li...
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9 years ago

Thanks ted!

I see. It definitely would be better to do so over the network. I would then need to learn the in's and out's of NTP. One other idea that I came up with was to obtain a simple GPS receiver with serial interface. That way I would have Stratum 0 time available as an out of band solution.

I do appreciate. I'm working on my masters in computer engineering. Working on my thesis...