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14 years ago

Tutorial: Using the USB-Blaster as an SOPC/Qsys Avalon-MM master

Hi all, I've put together a tutorial on how to use the Altera JTAG-to-Avalon-MM master and Altera Verification IP Avalon-MM BFM Master under both SOPC builder and Qsys. http://www.ovro.cal...
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14 years ago

Hi Kimberley,

Glad to read that you managed to figure out how to get the tutorial to compile in 10.1. The errors you see from executing the .do file are due to the path changes in the component heirarchy. You can probably fix these errors; in the tutorial on page 18 there is a picture of the Modelsim hierarchy window showing the path to the JTAG node. Use the Modelsim GUI to look at this path name in the version you are using - it will be slightly different - edit the .do file and change the names of the signals that have an incorrect path. Re-run the script a couple of times until you have the names correct, i.e., until Modelsim does not generate a warning.

Altera changes the hierarchy of some components between versions, so its difficult to write a tutorial that works under all versions :)

Another way to use the tutorial, is as a method for learning how to create your own custom SOPC systems. You can use the tutorial and Quartus 11.1sp1 to learn how to create a system, and then use Quartus 10.0 to create your own systems.

Let me know if you have any troubles and I'll try to help.

Cheers,

Dave