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11 years ago

PC controlling 8 Cyclone Transciever FPGA boards via USB

I need to do one of the following. 1. Have multiple Eclipse sessions controlling multiple Cyclone Transciever Starter Kits / NIOSII cards. 2. Have multiple NIOS command line sessions c...
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11 years ago

The command line programs (nios2-download, nios2-terminal) accept a "--cable" parameter you can use to indicate what USB Blaster to control. And similar functionality is available through the Eclipse dialog box I believe.

After you've locked down how your PC will enumerate the USB Blasters per Dave's suggestions above, writing a shell script to boot and open the terminal for each board ought to be straight forward. I've personally only ever had (3) boards at once, but I don't see where (8) will be a problem.