The speaker at Xilinx presentation at Embedded World asked the crowd: "Has anyone managed to create an FPGA System On Chip design - with first time success?"
"I have", was my reply: "... using LEON3 GRLIB!"
to be fully honest my response wasnt exactly true.
I did manage to get LEON3 system working in FPGA within a few hours, but I dont really recall if first FPGA configuration loaded was actually working or not. Maybe not.
But as of today, I could answer the same question with: "Yes I have" - and be really correct this time.
Some 20 minutes ago, I started XPS (EDK 8.1 SP1), new project, V4FX-12, click, click, done, changing 3 PIN location constraints (sys_clk, rxd, txd).. save .ucf file, then menu
Device->Download
and I got a prompt on serial console connected to FPGA board! First time synthesis, first FPGA download, system working.
So the first time success is possible! :)
Antti