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8 years ago

SOF & STP files -> how to know that STP is a part of SOF ?

Hi All, I have two files - SOF (programming file) and STP (SignalTap files). How can I verify that this STP file is a part of the SOF file (in another words that STP file was included into...
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8 years ago

You can enable only one Signaltap file for a Quartus project, it can optionally contain more than one Signaltap instance.

There's nor unique ID identifying a Signaltap instance, it's apparently matched by the number of JTAG in- and output bits. Means you can't be absolutely sure that you are using the right .stp file, you need to remember it.