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Frequent ContributorDE2-115 is a very nice development board, I also happen to have one of those.
It has a standard 9p RS232 compatible serial port, so you could just connect that to a PC via a COM port or a SERIAL/USB adapter.
So you could just implement a UART module in the FPGA and write text/data to the serial port and capture it on a PC.
It also has an SDcard socket, but that will require much more effort to use in any effective way.
Same for the etherNet port connections on the board.
New ContributorThanks for the reply.
So I only need to implement UART module in FPGA through Quartus and assign the pin of the module to Rs-232 and connect the R-232 to the PC?
Frequent ContributorCorrect.
In fact you probably only need a UART transmitter module to send data from the FPGA to the PC.
A UART transmitter is the conceptually simpler to implement compared to a UART receiver.
New ContributorI tried to implement a UART module in FPGA. The issue is capturing the data in the PC now I guess. How I can capture the data sent from the FPGA to PC?
Thank you for your help.
Frequent ContributorHave you installed any Windows serial terminal program. There are a few listed here ...
https://learn.adafruit.com/windows-tools-for-the-electrical-engineer/serial-terminal
PuTTY is pretty common, been around for a long time.
Personally I use a program called TeraTerm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tera_Term
its been around for 30+ years now. Runs fine on Windows 10.
You probably want to send your data as printable ascii text (ie numbers) to make it
easy to capture and save, but raw binary would work also.
