UART max speed

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SOPC builder allows for "other" baud rate entries than the standard, with only throwing up a Warning. 

 I need an isolated link between 2 Nios CPUs, and among other solutions, I'm looking at a 10Mbps isolated /RS-485 transceiver. The SOPC UART will allow me to set the baud rate this fast - but are there internal logic restrictions/constraints that anyone can think of?

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In Quartus II v6.0 Handbook -> embedded peripherals. 

You could find this for UART baudrate configuration :  divisor=int((clok freq/baudrate)+0.5) baudrate = clock freq / (divisor +1)  You have to determine max clock freq of your design to determine max baud rate   How to modify baudrate : -------------------------------  According to your clock freq and the baudrate you want, write into the divisor :  IOWR_ALTERA_AVALON_UART_DIVISOR(uart_base_addr, new_divisor);  don't forget to allow modification of divisor in SOPC Builder  you can also read your divisor with IORD_ALTERA_AVALON_UART_DIVISOR.. You don't need to open a file descriptor on the uart IP device  example : clock freq : 50Mhz baudrate : 921600 bds  divisor = 54

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Thanks for the reply, I was actually aware of the ability to divide the system clock down for derrivation of the baud rate, but I guess I am leary of whether I could really run Mbps with the uart in terms of processor performance. At 10Mbps, that would mean a byte interrupt every usec or so. Do you know if the processor can handle that? And I know it depends on what all else it is doing, what other interrupts it has to service, but in general?

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Go there : interrupt uart handler (http://forum.niosforum.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=477&hl=)http://forum.niosforum.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=477&hl= 

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