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17 years ago

Simulate Input through USB or Ethernet

Hello, I am a student working on my CS degree. My group was given a project to start a design on a web-based FPGA laboratory, so that students could visit a website, upload their vhdl code and...
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17 years ago

Why not through the JTAG interface?

Using a SOPC system (I don't even think you need a NIOS processor) and the system console tools (http://www.altera.com/literature/ug/ug_system_console.pdf), you can control SOPC builder components from the PC using TCL scripts. Add PIO components to your SOPC system and you can directly read/write the values from the PC.

It may seem overkill at first, but compared to a USB/Ethernet or even serial interface, you don't need to design your own communication protocol, and this solution is easy to scale.