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14 years ago

PC <-> S530Dev. Bd. Reg R/W interface?

Hi - so I just got my first Altera Development kit (S-IV GX S530). My "hello world" project starts with a tiny user-designed design (i.e. RTL code) that I download to the board that consists of so...
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14 years ago

Hmmm - so many choices. It seems like i could get pretty far with In-System Sources and Probes (i.e., peek and poke), and this has the advantage of being "lighter" than system console (and defers the rampup on Qsys/sw driver stuff, etc), but it does sound like it eventually runs out of steam and I'll want to switch to System Console (and the more-SW-like paradigm, as well as Qsys). So I'm wondering how much wasted effort there is in starting with ISSP as it will get me up and running quicker.....

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