I own and use Xilinx ISE 7.1 BaseX and to develop Spartan-3 code. I have a client who owns and uses ISE 6.3 BaseX but is not in a position to upgrade to 7.1 right now, policy against changing tools until a project has been completed.
Anyway, I have developed some VHDL code that makes use of the filter and FIFO IPs from CoreGen and I'd like to just turn it over to them so they can integrate it into their project. The problem is they can't just read the .ISE project since Xilinx in their wisdom changed project file formats between 6.3 and 7.1 and I can't export my project in a form readable by 6.3. It does look like my version of CoreGen and my client's version of CoreGen contain the same cores which is promissing.
My solution so far is just to give them the VHDL code and a description of the project tree but there as been some confustion at the 6.3 end about how to get the CoreGen output re-integrated. Just giving them the .XCO doesn't always work. Their 6.3 guy has tried to explain the errors to me and they sound mostly like pathname-not-found and file-not-found type errors due to absolute path information. So I write them a description of all the selected options in the core and their 6.3 guy has to re-create the core from their version of CoreGen. Seems a bit slow and silly.
Suggestions for a better way?
Rob