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Honored ContributorI can't see the images you posted; there's is some error with the attachments.
Anyway, usually when you receive weird characters on a uart serial port, you have a problem with the baudrate. i.e.: xmitter and receiver are not set at the same baudrate and char codes are interpreted in a wrong way. Possibile causes of problem: - code: you did set a wrong baudrate on xmitter or receiver - hw: clock problem; the nominal baudrate is correct but the actual one is not, so you get data rate mismatch on the serial line; you can simply check with an oscilloscope - code or hw: a problem in character decoding; debug the uart interface and the sw driver - phy: noise on the serial line link --- Quote Start --- As far as hardware, my only theory is that maybe it is expecting some data from the other pins that aren't being used on the serial port. Like I said, I'm only using Rx, Tx, and GND, and there are 6 others that aren't necessary (my computer is communicating fine without them) but the DE2 might want. --- Quote End --- The other pins are ininfluent; they are only used for flow control. If you can actually send and receive data (although weird it is), then the problem is not with these pins. Regards Cris
