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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

Dave and Ted,

These are great answers.

Here is the URL to the starter kit:

http://www.altera.com/products/devkits/altera/kit-cyclone-iv-starter.html

We use that kit since our emulator is constrained to PCIe Gen1 and the testing I am running with requires some source of Inbound and Outbound traffic + NIOSII execution unit .

So I have two configurations one a system with multiple slots (RC ) and the other is a PLX switch that expands to multiple slots. In each configuration, I will have multiple PCIe cards ( Cyclone, Arria and Stratix ) and I would like to control all the card via a USB hub and PC .... the minimum would be the .elf load for each USB_blaster behind the USB hub.

I will investigate using your suggestions,

Thanks, Bob.