<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Shachar Shemesh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shachar@shemesh.biz">shachar@shemesh.biz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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On 10/05/2011 10:28 AM, Erez D wrote:
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<div>The serial baud rates are derived from a clock, which is
divided by a divider (and then usually divided again by 4).<br>
you can set the baud rate to any tandard one (if supported
by hardware).<br>
however you can simply supply the divide_by value (if
hardware supports that, not all hw does, many usb-serial
e.g. pl2303 based , does not support that).<br>
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I'm not sure what SoC the Sheeva is using, but doesn't it have
external memory access pins you can hook your FPGA to? Wouldn't that
be much faster than anything a UART will provide (and not be
considerably more difficult to implement in FPGA)?<br></div></blockquote><div>it uses a marvel SOC (afaik sheevaplug is a marvel refernce design).<br>actually i wanted more of a streaming connection then a mem-map one, but connecting directly to the dram interface could be a nice idea.<br>
this would involve creating a dram interface on the fpga, and connecting to the dram bus. this would also lessen the amount of dram i can have.<br>I guess currently i would stick with the uart solution. if it would be too slow, and i would have my own board (currnetly i am using the dockstar), i would really consider using the dram interface.<br>
<br>thanks for the nice idea<br>erez.<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><font color="#888888">
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