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13 years ago

System Console & master_write_32 — can't do this while target is running?

I had a simple controller written in Verilog that was configuring Altera's TSE MAC. Up to this point, it was fairly simple. However, what I wanted to do next is to set a lot of Marvel PHY's settings ...
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13 years ago

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The other option, if you do not want to stop the CPU, is to put the jtag to avalon master bridge.

You can find it in bridge section of the component library list.

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Thanks for the followup. Yeah it does make sense. One thing I could not comprehend from the error text of the exception is that you have to stop/pause the Nios CPU in order to do what I wanted. Having Jtag to Avalon Master bridge solves the problem, thanks.