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UART on ZedBoard

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Hi all - first post :)

Please help if you can - I connected my Zedboard to my Windows 10 (64bit) PC for the first time today. The driver automatically installed the Digilent USB to Serial converter, which appears in the device manager. However, it installs no virtual COM port. I have tried uninstalling the driver found by Windows Update, disconnecting from my network, and installing the driver from Cypress (http://www.cypress.com/documentation/software-and-drivers/microsoft-certified-usb-uart-driver) which did not fix the problem. I also noticed that the chip on the board near the USB OTG port is an FTDI FT232, so I subsequently also installed that, but again, to no avail.

Could you please advise?

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    Hello Bob,

     

    To make sure we understand the problem, you are trying to use the Cypress USB UART on the ZedBoard with Windows 10?

     

    If so I would first attempt to just connect the ZedBoard USB UART port (J14 on the ZedBoard) directly to a USB port on your Windows machine and see if the driver is installed automatically (if Cypress has pushed the updated driver already). Don't be impatient as this can take a little while to complete on occasion. I don't have a Windows 10 PC to test this on.

     

    If this does not work then I would download the driver update listed above, while it is still active, and replace the Cypress USB UART driver on your Windows 10 PC.

     

    -Gary

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    Hello Bob,

     

    To make sure we understand the problem, you are trying to use the Cypress USB UART on the ZedBoard with Windows 10?

     

    If so I would first attempt to just connect the ZedBoard USB UART port (J14 on the ZedBoard) directly to a USB port on your Windows machine and see if the driver is installed automatically (if Cypress has pushed the updated driver already). Don't be impatient as this can take a little while to complete on occasion. I don't have a Windows 10 PC to test this on.

     

    If this does not work then I would download the driver update listed above, while it is still active, and replace the Cypress USB UART driver on your Windows 10 PC.

     

    -Gary

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