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Hi, I am using a DE1-SoC board. I am trying to hands-on few basic projects. My question is, can I not use the UART to visualize the output directly, instead of using it with a Nios II core or t...
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Honored Contributoryes there is, assuming your counter counts slower than your uart takes to send or you are not intrested in all the values. However a uart is not one of the first projects I would suggest to a beginner. It is relatively easy to create but you need a few basic skills. Do you have leds? Those are much easier to use but you might want to slow down the clock to see it coumt on the lsb's.
