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16 years ago

Memory Access via JTAG (MemTest)

The JTAG IF via USB Blaster offers the possability to gain access to FLASH, Nios and other stuff. Does anybody know how to gain access via JTAG to any address location, read and write ? The t...
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16 years ago

You don't even need a Nios/NiosII! There is a "JTAG to Avalon MM bridge" component that implements an Avalon MM Master for talking to all of your Avalon slaves. Please go through this training (http://www.altera.com/education/training/courses/oemb1117), if you're really interested in using System Console. It has a nice example attached to it that doesn't use NiosII and most (all?) of the typical usage modes.

Cheers,

- Ura