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Super Contributor1) 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.
