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UART Test ISSUE (LOOPBACk)

Altera_Forum
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hi, 

 

I am using Altera Quartus 10.1 SP1, NIOS SBT 10.1 SP1 and ModelSim Altera Starter Edition 6.6D. I am trying to implement UART in SOPC and write a NIOS sample code and test it using ModelSim. 

 

I built SOPC using UART, NIOS and Memory and generated sopcinfo files. After that created ELF by using this sopcinfo and launched in modelsim. What ever i print on console is reflecting on TXD line and i tried to loopback TXD to RXd but i unable to see any data in RXD Buffer[Serial to parallel converter]. Data is available on RXD line. Is there any other setting i need to do in order to test Loopback UART??? 

 

 

Please help in testing of UART LoopBack.
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Altera_Forum
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Hi, which FPGA are you using? I am using the Cyclone V SoC and trying to assign the UART_RX and UART_TX signals to "special function" pins, but I am unable to do so.

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Altera_Forum
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I have used the UART with the Cyclone V Terasic development board and it works fine. I have to find my files.

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Altera_Forum
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If you look in the UART code created (by SOPC builder / QSYS) you might find there are two transmitters one is the real transmitter and the other is a stimulus source for rxd. You can go in and hack the connection to connect txd and rxd:- 

Have a look for some lines like this:- 

// assign source_rxd = rxd; 

and uncomment to become 

assign source_rxd = rxd; 

 

and also find the stimulus_transmitter and disconnect the txd output 

so change from 

.txd (source_rxd) 

to 

.txd ()
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