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14 years ago

Running multiple consoles simultaneously

Hi, this is sundaram from University of Waterloo. I have a small doubt regarding running multiple consoles simultaneously. As I have 8 cores on my board, I would like to run multiple programs simulta...
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14 years ago

Since the JTAG UART can't be shared I would just pair up one JTAG UART per processor.

I misunderstood your question. Sounds like you want to create a multi-processor collection to do this. I prefer to do this from a shell script using nios2-download to download to each of the processors. There is an update to the multi-processor tutorial coming soon that'll show how to do this with shell scripts. In 11.0 you should be able to use nios2-download and point it at the .jdi file in your hardware project folder along with naming the CPU you want to download code to. To learn more type in the --help argument to nios2-download.