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16 years ago

Multiple JTAG control

Hi, Is it possible to use a single NIOS II IDE to control two independant JTAG/USB-blaster based systems? (for example use USB port 1 to control one system and use USB port 2 to control another sy...
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16 years ago

I get an error message when I tried to start the second instance.

It says "Workspace in use or cannot be created, choose a different one."

So, I made a copy of the whole workspace directory and started the second instance of IDE pointing it to this copy of workspace, the second instance of IDE came up. However, neither IDE could see any of the USB/JTAG blaster device.

I am running IDE v 7.1 on Windows XP using two identical Terasic Blaster USB JTAG link devices.

Ravi.