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19 years ago

How to get a gdb server running?

What's the simplest way to get a gdb server running using a USB Blaster for the target connection to a NIOS2 target? I'd vastly prefer Linux, since that's where I'm doing my dev...
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originally posted by grante@Oct 28 2006, 03:22 PM

i guess one of my colleagues was right the other day when he said that altera sure goes to a lot of effort to make it difficult and expensive to use their parts.

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Coming from the ASIC world, originally, I think it's super-cheap. Besides which, the trend (for both Altera and Xilinx) is to provide as much of their dev. tools for free as is possible. Or, are you referring to a cost other than dollars/cents?

Cheers,

- slacker