I find it frustrating that there is no way or telling if a compilation has ended or not. I can't find any feature in ISE which makes a sound when it's finished. I am aware that some might find this an annoying feature but would save me periodically checking to see if it's finished or come to an end early due to a mistake.
Any ideas?
I would also find this very useful - I was wondering if there was maybe a way to insert an extra program to go 'ping' into the list of executables that are run as part of the build process. I'd also really like to see an option to download to device on successful compilation.
On a sunny day (Mon, 21 Nov 2005 12:48:13 -0000) it happened "Fred" wrote in :
I'd think that hanging a themocouple with level detector on the processor, or heat exhaust, was a nice lunch 'time project ;-)
In Linux you could use grep or awk on the output of 'top':
CPU states: 0.5% user, 2.7% system, 15.4% nice, 81.1% idle
look for > X percentage idle, and use keyboard beep: echo -e "\a"
....
A utility to see if a file had been modified would be a possible method.
I usually start the build by double-clicking "Generate PROM, ACE, or JTAG File" which will pop up an iMPACT window when finished. Sound would be nicer, though because I'm usually typing something when the window pops up and takes over the focus...
You could do the entire flow with "make" from the command line. There you can add a command to issue a beep at the end, or send email, or send a Winpopup message, or whatever you like. The part about downloading to the device wouldn't be a problem either. And the makefile you'll only have to do once, that usually stays the same, since only the list of source files and the project name change.
cu, Sean
If the Xilinx widow is minimized.. you should notice the window you are working in become responsive again :-) pop up windows are a strict no no.. Protel hates them, I have also had them pop up behind other windows... if you happen to click at the wrong time... or you just press return as the window pops up.. :-)
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What I usually do is to start Windows Task Manager and make it into the minimize mode, which goes to my tray bar. When PAR or any other CPU intensive application is running, task manager goes all the way to bright green. This works very well for my single thread P4 CPU but I cant guarantee that it will work on other systems. Works only on windows systems too....
That's my two cents..
Sim> If the Xilinx widow is minimized.. you should notice the window you are
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