Forum Discussion

Altera_Forum's avatar
Altera_Forum
Icon for Honored Contributor rankHonored Contributor
22 years ago

JTAG UART debugger

Hello, I would like to know if we can debug a design based on Nios II using ByteBlaster II Jtag cable. I am not able to debug my S/W in Nios IDE. Do I have to buy an other cable in order to d...
Altera_Forum's avatar
Altera_Forum
Icon for Honored Contributor rankHonored Contributor
22 years ago

Include the debug hardware into you're NIOS II (2nd page of the NIOS II core settings).

To me it sounds like you are trying to use the RS232 uart for debug. If you have the jtag debugger in there then you don't need the RS232 uart to debug (I gathered this since you talked about the two comm ports on I'm guessing a NIOS development board).

This should solve things (note I have never used a debugger in my life, I'm a firm believer in printfs hehe)