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16 years ago

questions about uarts

Hi all, I'm starting a new development with NIOS II and I have some questions regarding UART usage. First of all, I will briefly explain my application: I need 4 UARTs on my system. O...
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16 years ago

Yes, you can open multiple files.

I'm not sure getc() will return EOF when there's no data to read -- it may block instead.

If that way fails, you'll need to perform low level access to the UARTs' registers.