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14 years ago

Communication / USB Blaster Like RS232

I have a DSP Development Kit Cyclone III, but it doesn't have a RS232 and i need comunicate with nios to acces a data for the PIOs it's posible use the Physical USB-Blaster(No the Embedded) to comuni...
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14 years ago

Hi Wombat,

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It is possible to communicate with a JTAG avalon master by embedding SystemConsole within matlab, but it's tricky in 11.1 (you have to set up a lot of classpath variables etc).

Or if you don't want to do that then start SystemConsole with the --server option and it will provide a single use TCP server for you.

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Since SystemConsole in 11.1sp1 supports Tcl fileevent, it would be easier to write a Tcl server that runs under SystemConsole to provide the hardware access, and contact that from MATLAB.

I have a Tcl client/server example if anyone wants it.

Cheers,

Dave