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MG007
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3 years ago

How to write data in a file from FPGA

 Hello, I am a beginner using Quartus and programming FPGA. I need to implement a binary search on FPGA and record the result of the search in a file (a 7 binary code each time). Below is the implem...
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3 years ago

Thanks 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?

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3 years ago

Correct.

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.

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    3 years ago

    I 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.

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      3 years ago

      Have 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.

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        3 years ago

        Thank you for the reply. I will check the softwares recommended.

        Thanks for the help!