Claire Xen  🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 🧙🏻‍♀️ BLM  🏴 🚩

@esden on @TheAmpHour you mentioned a 32-port UART in FPGA. Any details on that project you can share?

It is an FPGA so take any UART design, instantiate it 32 times and assign to the pins of the FPGA. Done ;) You might want to choose an FPGA that has 64+ GPIO if you want all of them to be TX RX :) Or do you have something else in mind?

Basically! I've had this idea for awhile to implement something like a Serial/Console terminal in a FPGA for testing purposes. I'm an FPGA n00b so hope to learn the basics with iCEBreaker. https://www.tripplite.com/48-port-serial-console-server-2-usb-ports-dual-gbe-nic-16gb-flash-sd-card~B098048 …

Yeah for this kind of stuff FPGA are good at. In gear like that you either find ASIC or FPGA depending on the production volume. I have not tried to use all PMOD pins on the iCEBreaker as UARTs yet. But you have pins to put at least 7 on it. including the FTDI connection.

Any more than that you will need an FPGA board/chip with a bigger amount of GPIO. :)

On the icoboard you can have 100 serial interfaces.