efabless/caravel_board

Mention J2 use for serial communication through USB on chipignite Readme

mbalestrini opened this issue · 1 comments

I think it would be useful to mention that J2 on the development board connects Caravel UART to the FTDI chip on: https://github.com/efabless/caravel_board/blob/8b965cd39c64f28c24af80159d6b48bc4cc00404/firmware/chipignite/README.md

Maybe something like this?

Shorting J2 enables the serial communication between Caravel's UART and the on board FTDI USB chip.
A serial terminal program like screen can then be used to exchange information between the computer and Caravel.

Maybe adding that while J2 is shorted you can't flash the firmware? (at least that is what it happened in my tests)