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Altera_Forum
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20 years ago

NIOSII - Write output to Dev kit LCD

I am trying to switch over to eCos from MicroC/OS-II. I have succesfully installed eCos for NIOS 5.0. I have built and run the eCos hello example. I am now trying to modify the hello example ...
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20 years ago

To use the LCD you need to have the "hardware serial device drivers" option enabled. This is located under the "Serial device drivers" folder in configtool.

This is a little unintuitive - but unfortuanely it's the eCos way of dealing with these devices...