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I' m a beginner in the FPGA world so i went to Xilinx and Altera site to download the free design software for learning the basics. I have saw that all the software downloadable is for windows. Am i wrong or is really so? If so for me is very strange or wrong. Because for a design kit that is freely distributed what platform is better than a free Operating System? Without entering in the discussion of the better quality of Linux. I hope i'm wrong and that someone tell me that i can download these software for my gentoo Linux distribution.

Thanks to all.

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kubik
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I don't know about the Altera tools, but my understanding is that Xilinx webpack is not available for linux because they would have to pay per-seat licensing to the developer of the cross-platform GUI that they use. For giveaway software this clearly does not make sense.

I'm pretty sure people have got the free Xilinx tools (webpack) going under wine - google will tell you. The only hitch there is the iMPACT programming tool - I doubt it will work.

Cheers,

John

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John Williams

Hey Xilinx, if you're listening, there are a *lot* of us who would rejoice if you released the command line tools for Linux for free. ESPECIALLY bitgen. We can do without the gui.

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Adam Megacz

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Symon

I agree 100% -- while the GUI may *look* user-friendly, it hides what is really happening while it "helps" you. With command-line, you are in control.

Just give us the Linux command lines and a few sample Makefiles, forget the GUI.

Jim

jimwang at cal dot berkeley dot edu

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Jim Wang

That's not enough. You also need documentation on the format of the files that you will need to edit by hand.

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Hal Murray

The command line tools are already well documented, in the "Developement System Reference Guide".

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And the Windows command line tools run quite well under Wine.

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Duane Clark

You can (at least) get the Xilinx webpack to run to a large extend. Look at my directions at

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-- Brian

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Brian Dam Pedersen

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