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Honored ContributorPC <-> 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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Honored Contributor --- Quote Start --- it looked like Flynt's Developer's Guide was maybe a better choice for me? Lots of people said not to use Welch as a main/first book? --- Quote End --- I don't have the Flynt book. I do have 'Effective Tcl/Tk programming', McLennan, and 'Tcl and the Tk Toolkit', Ousterhout. I don't really look at them too much any more; unless I'm looking to jog my memory. I'm sure the Flynt book will be just fine. You can always ask for example scripts here. Caveat; when automating your build scripts, you might find it easier to have a top-level Makefile, and within that make file use Tcl scripts, eg. quartus_<tool> -s script.tcl. Hence, learning both how to use the Tcl APIs and the command-line versions of tools is recommended. Cheers, Dave
