I checked on the web page for the Xilinx tools and this is what I found...
"The memory requirements for both RAM and hard disk space will vary depending on your target device family and size as well as the unique characteristics of your design. "
Anyone have an idea of how much hard drive space is needed for the full toolset? I don't get why they don't provide some sort of figure either a base or a maximum. I guess if you have to ask, you don't have enough space?
Count on 1GB of hard drive space for the Xilinx ISE software. A P4 with 512MB memory is enough.
I got it to work with about 4 GB of free disk space after it failed with over 2 GB of free space. I watched the HD usage as it installed and the high water mark seemed to be about 3.25 GB. The final storage used is about 2.25 GB. This was WebPack ver 8.1.
If you are going to be working with anything above the -200 mark (as in XC3S200), figure on 1GByte memory for reasonable response, particularly for sims.
I had to reinstall once I started telecommuting, but I was installing on a 200GByte second drive, so space didn't seem to be an issue :)
Cheers
PeteS
Opps, I mispoke. This was ver 8.2 which seems to have a significantly larger install file, so I assume it uses more disk space while installing.
My current 8.2 setup is (as reported by Windows Explorer): ISE: 2.58GB EDK: 785MB
I removed Virtex-5 support for now to save space. Apparantly, ISE consists of over 52,000 files!
Cheers, Martin
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