Is the Byte Blaster Cable and Signal Tap supported on Linux and more specifically on Fedora Core 5 or 6? All of my experience has been with Xilinx tools, this will be my first use of the Altera debug tools. Xilinx's ChipScope has only marginal Linux support. There is a kernel specific driver that only runs on the RHEL version of the kernel which is so old as to be useless on a laptop. I was wondering if Altera has the same sort of limitations or if their tools are kernel independent.
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Yes, SignalTap is supported on Linux. With regard to ByteBlaster, it is supported on 32-bit Linux but not on 64-bit Linux. But, the 64-bit Linux does however support Ethernet Blaster.
Are there any kernel issues?
For ByteBlaster( II or MV), you can use the /dev/parport? driver. Be sure to have permission to use that device. In addition, there is a ByteBlaster kernel driver to speed up the access. For the USBBlaster, no additional usb driver is needed. However, a bit configuration is needed. See
In summary, no additional kernel driver is needed for all blasters.
- Subroto Datta Altera Corp.
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