title: How to write to a file using an FPGA
body: <p>I feel I have put it a decent effort in searching for a solution to my problem online, but can't find what I need in order to accomplish my goal.</p>
  
  <p>Essentially, what I need to do is parse data from a file being received by my FPGA through serial. The data is fairly extensive and I think it would be easier if were able to use some of the functions inside of the textIO library.</p>
  
  <p>All of the techniques I have found online reffering to data parsing is only for simulation. I need this to actually happen on the FPGA.</p>
  
  <p>So my question is, is there a way to create a file internally on the FPGA and have the input from serial write to it then be able to use the textIO functions on that txt file?</p>
  
  <p>Some psuedo code might look somthing like:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    File_Open("newFile.txt", write) --If it doesn't exist, then create it
      write(SerialByteStream, newFile.txt) --Collect serial data onto txt file
  
      Then run textIO function on newFile.txt in order to use the data in newFile.txt 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Also, it's worth mentioning that I am new to FPGA's and VHDL, so it could be that there is a trivial solution that I am not aware of. And I'm using VHDL with the Altera DE2-115.</p>
  
  <p>I appreciate any help.</p>