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Honored ContributorHow to debug a cpld?
Hello. I'm moving my first steps with cpld design. I put an EPM7064AELC441 on a breadboard, wrote some verilog code (through Quartus) and saw a led flashing. To continue, some form of debugging is...
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Honored ContributorThe debugging options with simple CPLD (e.g. MAX 7000) are limited to JTAG boundary scan. Various third party tools are available for it, e.g. TopJTAG, that's said to support Altera programming adapters. http://www.topjtag.com/probe/
With Altera FPGA, you have powerful debugging tools, particularly SignalTap II, that acquires internal signals in real time. And all tools for free.
