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+#!/bin/bash
+# -------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2010
+# ASTRON (Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy) <http://www.astron.nl/>
+# JIVE (Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe) <http://www.jive.nl/>
+# P.O.Box 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, The Netherlands
+#
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+#
+# -------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
+#
+# Run this tool with at least the commandline arguments:
+# run_term toolset node_num
+# example:
+# run_term unb1 0
+
+if [ ! $1 ]; then
+ echo "error: missing argument for toolset"
+ exit 1
+fi
+
+# read generic functions/definitions
+. ${UNB}/Firmware/software/build/generic.sh
+
+toolset=$1
+. ${RADIOHDL}/tools/quartus/set_quartus ${toolset}
+shift # shift left commandline args: $2 becomes $1 ... ($0 is untouched)
+
+cable=
+node=
+# parse cmdline
+for arg ; do
+ case ${arg} in
+ --cable=*)
+ cable=`echo ${arg} | sed 's/^cable=//'`
+ ;;
+ esac
+done
+
+if [ $1 ]
+then
+ node=$1
+else
+ unb_error $0 "Enter a node number [0..7] as argument"
+fi
+
+
+
+
+
+
+#Convert user passed node to actual FPGA JTAG ID
+#===============================================
+
+# ..First detect if we're using single board or multi board (rack) notation
+charcount=
+digits=
+
+# Count digits
+charcount=`echo ${node} | wc -c`
+# Assign to $digits only the first time, compare to $digits the rest of the iterations
+if [ -z "${digits}" ]; then
+ digits=${charcount}
+ if [ "${digits}" = 2 -o "${digits}" = 3 ]; then
+ # Do nothing
+ :
+ else
+ unb_error $0 "Invalid node ID. Use [0..7] (single board) or [0..3][0..7] (multi board)"
+ fi
+else
+ # Check if the rest of the passed nodes have the same notation
+ if [ "${charcount}" != "${digits}" ]; then
+ unb_error $0 "Inconsistent node IDs. Use either [0..7] (single board) or [0..3][0..7] (multi board)"
+ fi
+fi
+
+
+# Now we have a proper list of nodes. Convert it to a FPGA JTAG ID.
+fpga=
+if [ "${digits}" = 2 ]; then
+ # don't accept node id>7
+ if [ ${node} -gt 7 ]; then
+ unb_error $0 "Node ID exceeds single UniBoard range [0..7]. If desired, use a multi-board node ID [0..3][0..7]"
+ fi
+ # Append node number plus 1 to fpga list
+ fpga="$(expr ${node} + 1)"
+fi
+
+
+
+# In the UniRack, the JTAG board IDs for board 0 (JTAG ID 1..8) and board 1 (JTAG ID 9..16) are swapped.
+# This makes it use counter loops and such, so we'll just use an associative array to map
+# the multi-board IDs to actual FPGA JTAG ID.
+match=
+if [ "${digits}" = 3 ]; then
+ declare -A node_jtag=(\
+ ["00"]="9"\
+ ["01"]="10"\
+ ["02"]="11"\
+ ["03"]="12"\
+ ["04"]="13"\
+ ["05"]="14"\
+ ["06"]="15"\
+ ["07"]="16"\
+ ["10"]="1"\
+ ["11"]="2"\
+ ["12"]="3"\
+ ["13"]="4"\
+ ["14"]="5"\
+ ["15"]="6"\
+ ["16"]="7"\
+ ["17"]="8"\
+ ["20"]="17"\
+ ["21"]="18"\
+ ["22"]="19"\
+ ["23"]="20"\
+ ["24"]="21"\
+ ["25"]="22"\
+ ["26"]="23"\
+ ["27"]="24"\
+ ["30"]="25"\
+ ["31"]="26"\
+ ["32"]="27"\
+ ["33"]="28"\
+ ["34"]="29"\
+ ["35"]="30"\
+ ["36"]="31"\
+ ["37"]="32"\
+ )
+ # uncomment the following line to print the associative array (node ID - jtag ID)
+ # for node in "${!node_jtag[@]}"; do echo "$node - ${node_jtag["$node"]}"; done
+
+ match=0
+ # Loop through our array
+ for ar_node in "${!node_jtag[@]}"; do
+ # Look for matching node ID
+ if [ ${ar_node} = ${node} ]; then
+ # Found a match! Append corresponding JTAG ID to our FPGA list.
+ fpga="${node_jtag["$node"]}"
+ match=1
+ fi
+ done
+ # Match should be 1, otherwise user passed non-existent node ID.
+ if [ "${match}" = 0 ]; then
+ unb_error $0 "Invalid node ID. Node IDs should be passed as [0..3][0..7]"
+ fi
+
+fi
+
+if [ -z "${cable}" ]; then
+ if [ -n "${UNB_DEFAULT_CABLE+x}" ]; then
+ unb_info $0 "Opening NIOS II terminal on cable UNB_DEFAULT_CABLE"
+ unb_exec $0 nios2-terminal --device $fpga --cable=${UNB_DEFAULT_CABLE}
+ else
+ unb_info $0 "Opening NIOS II terminal on default cable 1"
+ unb_exec $0 nios2-terminal --device $fpga --cable=1
+ fi
+else
+ unb_info $0 "Opening NIOS II terminal with argument ${cable}"
+ unb_exec $0 nios2-terminal --device $fpga ${cable}
+fi
+
+