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10 years ago

Stratix III DSP kit: When HSMC card is connected, JTAG Chain can't be accessed

I have a Stratix III DSP kit which includes the HSMC Data Conversion card. I can run the "My first FPGA" design on the Stratix III board without issue, but when I connect the HSMC card to the Stratix...
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10 years ago

So I ended up placing a service request with Altera, because after I made the previous post I was concerned there was something wrong with my Data Conversion HSMC card. They kindly responded that you do have to disable the JTAG chain at the HSMC port for this card, because there is no JTAG connection on it. So my Data Conversion card works fine; I just needed to enable the HSMA_BYPASS on SW1 (set to 1). As far as I can tell, the DSP kit User Guide says that the HSMA_BYPASS should be set to 0, so perhaps that is a typo in the Guide.

Erin