Achronix Bitporter User Manual
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Using the Achronix STAPL Player
Querying the Availability of Connected Pods (-q option)
Bitporter User Guide
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If the podname contained an IP address, and the provided address was for something
other than a Bitporter pod, the status will be something like --Protocol error.
Make sure that the device at the supplied network address is an
Achronix Bitporter probe.--
.
As an example, we’ll query the status of a handful of pods: usb10000, usb10001, usb20000,
net30000, net30001, net30003, net192.168.100.100, net192.168.100.111, and net192.168.200.222.
% acx_stapl_player -q -pusb10000,usb10001,usb20000,net30000,net30001,net30003,net192.168.100.100,net192.168.100.111,
net192.168.200.222
Achronix STAPL Player (acx_stapl_player)
(c) Copyright Achronix Semiconductor Corp. All rights reserved.
contains elements of Jam STAPL Player Version 2.5 (20040526)
Copyright (C) 1997-2004 Altera Corporation
********************************************
* Attempting to find all reachable pods: *
********************************************
Attempting to detect availability of user-specified pods...
WARNING: ...ERROR detecting availability of Ethernet pod net30003 : No available Achronix Bitporter products with
matching serial number found on local subnet. (-2130669535)
WARNING: ...ERROR detecting availability of Ethernet pod net192.168.100.100 : No available Achronix Bitporter product
found at supplied network address. (-2130669534)
|====================|=================================================================================================|
| Pod | Detected |
| Name | Availability |
|====================|=================================================================================================|
| usb10000 | ++AVAILABLE++ |
| net30001 | ++AVAILABLE++ |
| net192.168.100.111 | ++AVAILABLE++ |
| net30000 | --in use, owner is 192.168.100.141-- |
| net192.168.200.222 | --in use, owner is 192.168.100.238-- |
| usb10001 | --in use or not connected-- |
| usb20000 | --in use or not connected-- |
| net30003 | --No available Achronix Bitporter products with matching serial number found on local subnet.-- |
| net192.168.100.100 | --No available Achronix Bitporter product found at supplied network address.-- |
|====================|=================================================================================================|
Based upon our example results, we can see that pods usb100000, net30001, and
net192.168.100.111 are available. Pods net30000 and net192.168.200.222 are currently not
available, since they’re being used. The USB pods usb10001 and usb20000 were not detected,
which means either they’re not connected, or they’re already in use. (Since they’re USB pods,
they’re usually physically visible to the user, who can provide an eyeball check to verify the
current status.) Finally, the Ethernet pods net30003 and net192.168.100.100 were not detected.
For pod net30003, this could mean the pod with serial number 30000 is not on the local subnet,
or that the pod is not being powered. Pod net192.168.100.100 is likely not being powered, or
the user typed the wrong IP address.