About Cyclone III FPGA Starter Kit RS-232 serial port

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I am using Cyclone III FPGA Starter Kit and found there is no RS-232 serial port on board. 

I have a UART IP want to implement on to FPGA and connect to PC via RS-232 link. How can I do that? I am not sure if I can use USB port to do the job.  

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You could use GPIO headers on the board. 

 I would recommend using an FTDI USB-to-serial breakout cable, eg.,  C232HM-DDHSL-0 http://search.digikey.com/scripts/dksearch/dksus.dll?x=0&y=0&lang=en&site=us&keywords=ftdi+ddhsl-0  C232HD-DDHSP-0 http://search.digikey.com/scripts/dksearch/dksus.dll?x=0&y=0&lang=en&site=us&keywords=ftdi+ddhsp-0  These are identical cables, just different lengths. I have them both, they work great.  Cheers, Dave

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--- Quote Start ---  I am using Cyclone III FPGA Starter Kit and found there is no RS-232 serial port on board. I have a UART IP want to implement on to FPGA and connect to PC via RS-232 link. How can I do that? I am not sure if I can use USB port to do the job.   --- Quote End ---     If it has an HSMC header you could use one of my general purpose IO boards.....   http://www.nialstewartdevelopments.co.uk/products.htm   This is listed as a 'HSMC GPIB' in the list of Altera partner daughterboards, I've been trying to get it renamed for a while but no-one in Altera seems to want to help. :mad:   Nial.