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18 years ago

Cyclone III Starter Kit Control Panel

I am curious as to how the control panel actually works. It seems to require the FPGA be reconfigured to work. How does the host machine exchange data with the FPGA to do things like turn on/off LEDs...
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18 years ago

I don't know about this particular case, but not all control panel versions use the virtual jtag interface. The DE2-70 control panel is Nios based using virtual jtag. But I think DE1 and the plain (old) DE2 control panels handle the JTAG pin signals directly.

If the tcl scripting interface is enough for you, then virtual jtag is a better alternative.