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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

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!