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Lili_7
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2 years ago

DE0-NANO

Hi there

first of all i have just started to work with FPGAs. and i am struggling with this problem for 2 weeks now.

i have a DE0-NANO board which i want to send some data (2 32bit data packet) from my pc to it to do some process and functions and vise versa receive data from FPGA on my pc. so in basic i have a .exe which i developed in c takes data from user and process them and then sends them to FPGA.

my questions:

1.is it possible with usb blaster on the board?without any other extra module?

2.is it possible with using QSYS? which kind of serial interface protocol should i use? jtag uart? or avalon_st jtag interface? in general what is difference between them?

thanx in advance

3 Replies

  • sstrell's avatar
    sstrell
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    2 years ago

    1) The USB Blaster is used to program the device and make use of on-chip debugging tools while the design is running. If you use System Console with it, you could send data through this JTAG connection, but normally you'd use other I/O on the device for this purpose. In other words, it's possible, but for normal operation of an FPGA design, you wouldn't.

    2) System Console does require a JTAG bridge which is usually part of a Platform Designer system design, so again, this could work in a debugging like scenario, but is not usually used for normal operation.

  • NazrulNaim_Intel's avatar
    NazrulNaim_Intel
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    2 years ago

    Hello,


    Sorry for the delay, as per previous reply from user 'sstrell', it can be accepted as the answer for your questions,


    Hope that answer your question.


    Best regards,

    Nazrul Naim


  • NazrulNaim_Intel's avatar
    NazrulNaim_Intel
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    2 years ago

    Hi,

    As we do not receive any response from you on the previous question/reply/answer that we have provided, for now I will set this case to Close-Pending.

    Regards,

    Nazrul Naim