Hi all,
I am Monica from Germany,I am new to FPGA programming.I have very little experience with Altera cyclone FPGA development and Quartus software.I dont have any experience with Xilinx tools.Now our company want to try Xilinx because xilinx offers J.83 Annex A/C Modulator QAM IP core.
We have received a AVNET Xilinx Spartan3 board with xc3s1500 FPGA.Our company wants me to test the board with a sample program.But I am having hard time to test the board.The examples(Hello World!) are for EDK software.But we dont have EDK software.We just want to download a sample project and see "Hello World!" on screen.
So I tried to use impact software which came with free ISE webpack and tried to download "download.bit",it says that "download.msk" doesnt exist.
then I tried to download "system.bit" it says that "programmed sucessfully" but I dont observe any "hello world" on console.
Am I missing something?Is this approach not correct?Do we really need EDK software?
Please help me regarding this problem.If I have to read any documentation please provide pointers.
Thanks in advance. Monica DSouza, Germany