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16 years ago

UART not sending characters

I started with the Cylcone 2 development a few months back. If I send a string of 800 characters some of them are not received at the host even at 9600. I tried three different UARTs. Tha avalon v...
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16 years ago

It is worth checking that the generated code is correctly checking the tx status - but I think an error there wouldn't give the output you are seeing.

I've not used any of the uarts, but I'd suspect you should loop a lot of times once any tx fifo fills.

What are you using to display the data?

Recent versions of 'putty' are much better than hyperterm.