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covfefe
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3 years ago

System-Console CLI no USB devices detected

Hello, I am having issues running the Quartus system-console 12.1sp1 as CLI. system-console.exe --cli [or witout --cli] [wait a bit] get_service_paths {device} works as expected in t...
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RichardT_altera
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3 years ago

I usually use GUI for system console, but my best guess is when we open the system console GUI, the system console will check for connection with the JTAG/USB. In which you can see in the System Explorer tab.

For CLI, I guess is there is no connection setup beforehand so a refresh connections might be required. Just my two cents there.

I usually recommend people to use the GUI mode as I found it easier to use.

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covfefe
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3 years ago

1) How could I add the connection setup to the CLI execution to mirror the GUI?

2) The GUI might be easier to use, but is about 2x slower. A simple script consisting of standard FPGA instructions takes about 2x more time in the system-console GUI compared to CLI (60s vs 30s execution time, mix of master_read_16 and similar commands).