UART in cw305 board

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Hi,

I am working with the CW305 board, and I have implemented my design on the FPGA. Now I want to view the output on my PC.

I need to use UART for this, and I would like to know if the UART functionality is available over the USB cable provided with the board or if I need to use an external UART-to-USB converter. Additionally, could you guide me on how to set up and view the output on my PC?

Thank you in advance for your help!

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No, it’s not. However if you’re using ChipWhisperer capture hardware, then you can use the IO1/IO2 pins of the 20-pin port (just like all our non-FPGA targets do). Our example Ibex and DesignStart soft-cores do this (links here).

To interact with it from your PC, again look at how this is done with all our non-FPGA targets.