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9 years ago

UART 16550 vs standard UART

Hi all, is there a simple way of replacing the standard UART, which is in all examples, with the UART16550? I mean, that simply all stdin/stdout/stderr goes to the UART16550? I can only have o...
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9 years ago

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Have you tried if JTAG UART works?

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No. I had the "standard" UART in before, got my application working, but needed one with a FIFO. So tried to get the 16550-UART to work, without success.

What I'm really trying is to get the RSU working (application note 741), so my NIOS system is pretty simple, basically using the AN-741 template, and replacing

the UART in it with the 16550-UART. Any chance anybody else can try it?