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Xilinx and Lattice tools on one machine?

Does anyone have experience running tools from Xilinx (ISE, XST) and Lattice (ispLever) on the same Windows computer?

I've had problems in the past trying to install Xilinx and Altera (Quartus) on the same machine. In the end I uninstalled the Quartus software and still had to purge my registry of any remnants of it before the Xilinx (Foundation) tools worked again.

Right now on one machine I'm running two versions of Xilinx,

4.1i Foundation (Aldec-based) and 6.1i ISE (XST). I can switch between them by changing only the Xilinx environment variable. I'm a bit reluctant to install the ispLever on the same machine (although it would be convenient) after what I went through to repair the Xilinx tools after installing Quartus.

Regards, Gabor

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Gabor,

I've been able to the GUI environments for ISE, ispLEVER, and Quartus with no modifications under Win2000. However, if you run your program executables from the command line, you will need to manage the enviroment variables for ISE and ispLEVER since the tools use similar executable names (NGDBuild, MAP, PAR, etc.).

I've also found conflicts between the Actel and Lattice-Editions of Synplify which are provided with the free "starter" tools.

Best Regards, Troy Scott Lattice Semiconductor TME

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Thanks fo the info. I have already installed ispLEVER on my machine. The conflict with Quartus was not with ISE, but the older Foundation (Aldec-based) tools. With Quartus installed I lost the ability to compile Abel modules (yeah we have some really old code here). So now I have two versions of Xilinx and ispLEVER on the same machine and haven't found any conflicts yet (at least with Xilinx tools, I haven't played with the ispLEVER very much yet).

Regards, Gabor Szakacs

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Gabor

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