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21 years ago

Run as Hardware

What is the details about the "Run as Hardware"? ======================================== 1. What is the "Controller logic" or "boot loader" in NiosII side, especilly the JTAG UART? 2. Ho...
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21 years ago

The JTAG debug core uses the processors data master to write to memory, so anything which is accessible from that master can be written. In addition, some on-chip ROMs are writable when the processor is in debug mode.

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