Application notes: Serial port:

Author: Nan Ying

Group members: Nan Ying

Philip Marshall

Rami Zewail

Sean Kozicki

In order to use the serial port on the Virtex II multimedia board from xilinx first open and set up a project as described under documentation under xilinx website. Xilinx already included a serial library and drivers to control the serial port. Only uartlite will be discussed in this application note since it is the only one we got to work. Add your source code in applications tab. Right click on source and choose the add source option

Next open a hyper terminal and set the baud rate to 9600.

Make sure the hyper terminal is connected to the appropriate serial port (COM1 or COM2).

You can reset the setting on hyper terminal by clicking on the properties tab while hyper terminal is disconnected. Any output from the serial port should be displayed on the hyper terminal.