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20 years ago

sharing uart by two processor cores

Hi all, can two nios II processors share one uart terminal i am using NDB stratix II device. i have connected two nios processors to one uart. also i have attached one mutex in sopc builder....
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20 years ago

Did you try to have two nios2-terminal connect? You might have conflict at the nios2-terminal because of the single com port that is connected, but not the NIOS II because the SOPC Builder will take care of the switching between multiple master to a single slave.