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12 years ago

FPGA - PC communication

Hey all, I am trying to get my DE2-115 board and my pc to communicate, but I have no idea where to even start. So far my FPGA training begins and ends with the 10 labs that came with the DE board, pl...
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12 years ago

RS232 is by far the easiest to implement. Many products still include RS232 as it is easy and cheap to implement on the FPGA and works with little debugging. Ethernet and USB are both massively complex. You cannot find USB or Ethernet cores for free.

There are plenty of RS232 examples if you use google. Here is the first: http://www.fpga4fun.com/serialinterface.html