Minimig Shared RS232
From Open Circuits
By wiring the MCU (PIC18) and the fpga via an AND gate one can eliminate the jumper currently present on the rs232 TxD.
RS-232:
Default voltage level is negative (-3 .. -25) = Logical "1"
AND Truth table:
Input0 Input1 Output 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rs232#Voltage_levels
http://www.winpicprog.co.uk/pic_tutorial7.htm

