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From: Bob Smith on 2 Mar 2010 11:14 JuNNi wrote: > Hi, I am a beginner at FPGA. I had a query that which platform is used for > professional digital designs. Is it linux or windows?? Linux of course. And, if I might add, using vi and make. OK, the "of course" applies only to me, but I didn't want to switch to Windows to do FPGA development so I took the time to figure out what ISE was doing under the covers and found that all the real work is done by programs that can be invoked at the command line. Eventually I was able to even build a makefile for my project. I wrote an article for Nuts & Volts magazine describing how to use command line tools and makefiles for FPGA development. The article is at http://www.demandperipherals.com/docs/CmdLineFPGA.pdf I had a little trouble getting the proprietary JTAG drivers to work under Linux, so when I designed my board (Baseboard4) I made it so you could download the FPGA code to a USB-serial port using just a 'cat' command. It turns out that the command line approach works as well under Windows as it does under Linux, if that is of any use to you. thanks Bob Smith
From: Bob Smith on 2 Mar 2010 11:22 JuNNi wrote: > Hi, I am a beginner at FPGA. I had a query that which platform is used for > professional digital designs. Is it linux or windows?? Linux of course. And, if I might add, using vi and make. OK, the "of course" applies only to me, but I didn't want to switch to Windows to do FPGA development so I took the time to figure out what ISE was doing under the covers and found that all the real work is done by programs that can be invoked at the command line. Eventually I was able to even build a makefile for my project. I wrote an article for Nuts & Volts magazine describing how to use command line tools and makefiles for FPGA development. The article is at http://www.demandperipherals.com/docs/CmdLineFPGA.pdf I had a little trouble getting the proprietary JTAG drivers to work under Linux, so when I designed my board (Baseboard4) I made it so you could download the FPGA code to a USB-serial port using just a 'cat' command. It turns out that the command line approach works as well under Windows as it does under Linux, if that is of any use to you. thanks Bob Smith
From: d_s_klein on 4 Mar 2010 14:14 On Mar 2, 8:14 am, Bob Smith <bsm...(a)linuxtoys.org> wrote: > JuNNi wrote: > > Hi, I am a beginner at FPGA. I had a query that which platform is used for > > professional digital designs. Is it linux or windows?? > > Linux of course. And, if I might add, using vi and make. > > OK, the "of course" applies only to me, but I didn't want > to switch to Windows to do FPGA development so I took the > time to figure out what ISE was doing under the covers and > found that all the real work is done by programs that can > be invoked at the command line. Eventually I was able to > even build a makefile for my project. > > I wrote an article for Nuts & Volts magazine describing how > to use command line tools and makefiles for FPGA development. > The article is at > http://www.demandperipherals.com/docs/CmdLineFPGA.pdf > > I had a little trouble getting the proprietary JTAG drivers > to work under Linux, so when I designed my board (Baseboard4) > I made it so you could download the FPGA code to a USB-serial > port using just a 'cat' command. > > It turns out that the command line approach works as well > under Windows as it does under Linux, if that is of any use > to you. > > thanks > Bob Smith Bob, XST supports having the 'run' command in a script file, so the echo- >pipe technique is not needed. $.02, RK
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