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Use the demo project with the XMD UART

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When application demo is compiled, you can click on the "Start XMD" button to download the hw_test application and open a UART terminal. 
Open the project by double-clicking on the system.xmp file. The Xilinx Platform Studio is opened. To compile the project press the "Download Bitstream to the FPGA" button.

Before running the demo application, open the #project_root#\xmd.ini file:
1.rst
2.dow sw/test_hw.elf
3.#dow sw/demo.elf
4.run
5.terminal -jtag_uart_server 4321
To run the demo application
uncomment line 3 (remove "#")
comment line 2 (add "#" as first character)
save xmd.ini.
type "exit" in XMD command window
restart XMD by clicking again the "Start XMD" button in the XPS toolbar.
With this application, you can test the PC ↔ FPGA communication using a provided API.
If you want to input some characters to the XMD UART, then open some terminal emulators, such as Microsoft / Hilgraeve HyperTerminal (usually included in Windows START MENU / All programs / Acessories / Communications / Hyper Terminal). Connect using the following settings:
No Host address
Port Number: 4321
TCP/IP connection type

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The UART settings are:
bits per seconds: 115,200
data bits: 8
parity: none
stop bits: 1
flow control: none (otherwise you will not be able to enter commands)
The UART port will output something of tis kind:
-Entering main TE0300 DEMO ver 0x07010218-
Setting up Interrupt Controller:
Initialize exception handling
Register external interrupt handler
Register I2C_SLAVE interrupt handler
Enable interrupts in the interrupt controller
Start the interrupt controller
Enabling and initializing instruction cache
Enabling and initializing data cache
Type:
'a' RAM test
'f' RAM Ftest
'c' toggles caching
'g' prints switches state and board revision
't' starts TX transmission
'r' starts RX transmission
's' stops all transmissions
'm' for the redraw menu
MicroBlaze will work even in case the UART port is left unconnected.

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Use the demo project without the XMD UART

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