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20 years ago

USB-Blaster under Linux?

Hi all, I've tried getting the NIOS IDE to work under Linux. Everything's fine up to the point where I want to download my code to the eval board (Cyclone 1c20). Apparently the USB Blas...
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20 years ago

Andrew,

Windows IDE slowness, in my experience, is generally due to some other Win32 network/"active" directory issue. It seems to behave the worst when one of your mapped drives becomes disconnected. The same is true for the auto-magically connected "My Network Places"...

That being said, I feel that Linux is better suited for robust development environments. Win32 still just doesn't "get" networking. For real design work (HW or SW), Linux/UNIX is a superior environment.

Cheers,

- slacker