Xilinx tools on Linux

Huh? Qt is licensed per developer seat, not per user seat. See:

"No per-copy fees" - can't get more explicit than that. What's the problem?

Martin

Exactly ! Thats is what I do. And as you point out the tricky part is to get the project created. For that I still start up xps, and ask it to "Save Makefile". After that I just run gmake ...

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A trick to save waiting for the GUI:

$ xps -nw system.xmp

% save make % exit

John

Martin Ellis:

Thanks for the correction. I knew that there was commercial licensing involved, but had no idea that there weren't per-copy fees.

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I'm guessing it wasn't paranoia, because they provide a way to import and export information to/from the new binary .ise file:

My WAG is that they mistakenly thought they needed to go binary to improve the speed of the GUI (which can be sluggish with large projects, even on a decently fast machine). So that would line up with cause (a) above.

Marc

"WAG" !!! Wow ! Last time I heard WAG was about 10+ years ago when I was working at Tandem. We also used EWAG (E=educated). Amazing, I almost forgot it ... ;*)

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Around here it's a SWAG (Scientific...).

Hello All I have a succes story about ISE 7.1i and Mandrake 10.1, with th usual hassle of library linking and installing openmotif What I haven't been able to do is to use iMpact. The GUI load fine, but it seems unable to load the Xilinx cable drivers. I trie to recompile the drivers, but that didn't work either. Has anyon been able to use iMpact on a 2.6 Linux box? Or at a Linux box a all Thanks

Can you give us any hints about what you had to do to get ISE 7.1i running under Mandrake? I can run it but it's very slow - did you have to patch the kernel?

PHil

Much thanks for that! I was really excited when I saw the ISE WebPack for Linux. But that excitement turned to horror when it took 3 minutes to resize the main window.

Killing my Folding@Home Client cleared up the slowness.

I've just successfully used the new ISE 7.1i for Linux (on Fedora Core 3

- kernel 2.6.11) to program an XC9500 using the jtag parallel cable I made last week.

I had to patch / recompile the drivers. There was some work involved, but it wasn't too terrible. I used the method outlined in this article:

There were some unnecessary parts, and some necessary parts that were a little foggy. But I managed. Hint: don't bother with the Xilinx drivers - use the windrvr from

Jason

Hello All No, I didn't patch anything. Just the regular Mandrake 10. Powerpack install. Don't know if this procedure will work for th Community Edition

1) set your LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the Xilinx installation C

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/mnt/cdrom/platform/lin/bin/lin:$LD_LIBRARY_PAT

2) Install OpenMotif. I used this file

3) Install libcurl. It's located in the Mandrake install DVD

You also have to make a softlink to libcurl.so.3.0.0 as libcurl.so.2 ln -s libcurl.so.3.0.0 libcurl.so.

This will get the installer working. After you install all three CDs

run (assuming you installed ISE at /opt/Xilinx /opt/Xilinx/settings.s This script was't with execute permissions, so I had to chmod' i

Now, just run

/opt/Xilinx/bin/lin/ise

This should start ISE. I had one more 'glitch'. I couldn't create

open, etc, any projects. If I tried to create a new project, IS would tell me "cannot create tem project at...". If you look at th path it[ trying to create the project, it[ your own tm path, problably under you home dir. What gives? The solution i simple, but very stupid. It's a ISE bug, obviously, unset th 'TMPDIR' environment variable. No, don try to point it to anothe path, it's a ISE bug and even as root you get the error, so it's no a permitions problem. So unset it unset TMPDI If i do $ export | grep TM

you should read something like this

declare -x GCONF_TMPDIR="/tmp declare -x TMP="/home/lsantos/tmp The important thing is NOT to have TMPDIR in this list. Exit and star ISE again, obvioulsy with the same terminal you 'unseted´ th variable. Voilá! ISE works. Although the simulator doesn't :-(, whic was my main reason to install ISE 7.1 in the first place, as I alread have ISE 6.3 worwing fine