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16 years ago

UART wierdness

I'm trying to interface with a cell phone to the DE2 board over serial. I've been able to successfully talk to the phone using my computer and an FTDI cable. I know the baud and all of the other se...
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16 years ago

I found the problem. It turns out that I was using the male pinout and I should have been using the female one. Basically the top row of pins goes 5-1 instead of 1-5. Doh!