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21 years ago

Two cpu's with one JTAG UART

Hi All I've just upgraded from Quartus 4.2 and Nios 1.1 to Quartus 5.0 and NiosII v5.0. One of the first projects I've tried to convert has two processors in it using the same Jtag Ua...
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21 years ago

You can have multiple JTAG Uarts in a system and the IDE will support it if you create seperate hardware configurations then run in multiprocessor mode. This document shows a different way to go about this where multiple masters communicate to a single master that talks to the JTAG Uart

http://www.altera.com/literature/tt/tt_nio...or_tutorial.pdf (http://www.altera.com/literature/tt/tt_nios2_multiprocessor_tutorial.pdf)

Hope that helps.