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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

In the old days the data was sent slow enough the host could keep up so no handshaking. I bet, but can not find in the manual that the RS232 USB dongle uses handshaking signals. Which would be fine if the Cyclone 3 development board passed them through, but why would they do that?