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9 years ago

using UART in DE1-SoC board

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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9 years ago

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Building a UART is pretty darn simple, especially a Tx-only UART as would be needed here. But the DE1-SoC board also has a bunch of LEDs and a 7-segment display. I agree with Pieter that driving those would be an easier and better way to go for displaying a counter than a UART. The UART is probably connected to the SoC anyway.

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Hi,

Yes, I have tried displaying on LEDs n Seven Segment Display already, as a part of the beginner projects. The design I want to implement finally is a DCT (Discrete Cosine Transform) of an image. The output of the DCT is in form of a bitstream, which I need to capture. So, I want to use UART. I agree that it would be a TX-only UART. Could you pls giude me through the usage? Do I need to write the code for the UART transmitter? or just connecting with the HPS_UART_TX pin serve my purpose?