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Altera_Forum
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13 years ago

Experiments in look up, explore signals in FPGA

Hello,

There's a problem in FPGA design is It's difficult to look up signal in FPGA design.

If I can see signals in simulink very easily by taking a scope and lock at it. There's problem when I want to explore signals in FPGA design. There's very few outputs, which I can connect to oscilloscope. I have to change output in code and re-compilate all design, which sometime take me 10 minuts.

What do you do in these case? Is there any tool can help me?

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    Altera_Forum
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    13 years ago

    The tool you want is called SignalTap II. Its a logic analyzer that uses the JTAG interface. If your board has JTAG, then you can use SignalTap II.

    Cheers,

    Dave
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    Altera_Forum
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    13 years ago

    --- Quote Start ---

    The tool you want is called SignalTap II. Its a logic analyzer that uses the JTAG interface. If your board has JTAG, then you can use SignalTap II.

    Cheers,

    Dave

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    Thanks Dave, cleared