thotypous/alterajtaguart

Altera JTAG UART wrapper for Bluespec

alterajtaguart's Issues

How can we import this on Quartus?

Hi Paulo,

I am a retro-computing enthusiast and I have been searching for a solution to use UART over JTAG for small Z80 emulations I write inside FPGA boards.
By searching for something that could be used without NiosII I have found this project of yours, but I am too much of a noob to get it to even import onto one of my Quartus projects.
I have tried using the Altera's JTAG-Uart module, the one with the Avalon bus, but I couldn't adapt it to work without NIOS.
I converted it onto a schematic element and I do get a few characters (64 to be exact) to print onto the nios2-terminal but that's it, it doesn't go any further, that's when I started searching the web for an alternative.
I was looking for something that I could use to emulate a regular UART, like a 16550 or 6850, just using the USB JTAG connection without having to plug a USB-UART dongle into th board.

Muito obrigado por qualquer ajuda.
Marcelo.