Webpack 6.3i support for Spartan 3

I think you will find that you need to do a web install at present to get all the devices.

John Adair Enterpoint Ltd. - Home of Broaddown2. The Ultimate Spartan3 Development Board.

That wasn't the question. The OP was referring to the fact that the downloadable WebPACK 6.3i is stated to support Spartan 3 up to XC3S1500, yet he says that the pull down menu included the 2000 and

The ISE 6.3i evaluation and BaseX installations from CD apparently only suuport Spartan 3 up to XC3S400.

I haven't confirmed any of this personally. I'm using the downloaded WebPACK 6.3i for XC3S200 designs (using the Spartan 3 Starter Board), and it works fine for that.

Steve

Eric Smith wrote:

Ah so it *was* a screw-up and those devices were never intended to be included then? :-)

G.

Not really. It was a conscious decision to avoid having to provide 2 different service packs.

Steve

Gav>Steve Lass wrote:

Ok, I am still confused about this. Does the current 6.3 webpack, service pack 2 include the 3S2000/4000 or not? Is it in now and will be taken out in 7.1? Oh, I think I understand now. The two different service packs are for the webpack and the ISE, right? So the current webpack *does* include all the spartan 3 devices, but will not in the future. Ok, I understand.

What even odder is the paid version of ISE, the ISE BaseX, is actually does not support Spartan 3 1000 and 1500 at all, while the free ISE Webpack supports it. So, in term of Spartan 3, you get less by paying more.

Hendra

I think someone from Xilinx actually addressed that here. He said the inclusion of these two devices was a last minute decision and so they did not make it onto the CDs of any tools. But since webpack can be downloaded, you can get it that way.

They also have not updated their marketing literature on the web site, that still says BaseX (and webpack, iirc) only supports up to 400. Give them a chance... I'm just glad they included what they did.

Hmmmm, I guess the implication of the service pack issue is that BaseX also supports up to 3S4000!!!