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13 years ago

USB: FPGA to host communication - the same old story

Hi altera forum users, I know this was already podted many times and read all the topics about that, but nothing works for me. I want my PC as host and want to communicate with my FPGA desig...
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13 years ago

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altera_jtag_to_avalon_mm_tutorial.pdf is a nice tutorial, but the communication based on quartus_stp, that's annoying!

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The tutorial shows how to use both quartus_stp and SystemConsole. The server can run on either of these interfaces, and then you can write a C client application. You can't really ask for more options than that!

What is annoying is that Altera does not provide an API to call directly into a library for JTAG access.

Cheers,

Dave