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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

Hi Dave - thanks, and yes, I suspect I'll be back in Qsys when we start hooking up the HSMC daughter cards. Your next-to-last paragraph "My recommendation..." rings very true to me about the separation, but I can't quite picture the interface you describe (probably because I'm a HW guy and when you say "DLL or sockets" you're a little past me). Can you give me a little more, albeit still qualitative, idea of how this works? I mean, are we replacing system console with this "R/w server", or is the serrver talking to system console, and (either way), how?

thanks!

/j