Showing posts with label accessing the serial port in FPGA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label accessing the serial port in FPGA. Show all posts
Saturday, September 20, 2008
VHDL Part 50 : Accessing the Serial Port
I was such in a hurry that time when I had just finished porting the search algorithm I was working on to VHDL. It ran in the FPGA board but the results I see are on the LEDs. I cannot check the output with the LEDs since they are fast even if I had set the clock so slow for me to see the transitions I still cannot read with it. To be sure, I was adviced by my teammate to read the serial port using Matlab®. My inputs will be generated by a counter that with each count, it will give the necessary inputs to my main block. To do that I first need a UART transmitter and use the push-down button on the FPGA board as my clock. In using the push-down button as the clock, I need to add a debouncing circuit to control it because one push could give several clocks. This is what I did to access the serial port on the FPGA board I am using.
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