Finally, selling my old Xilinx/Viewlogic software package
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From: Mawa_fugo on 21 Mar 2010 08:48 On Mar 21, 7:00 am, Peter <pe...(a)peter2000.co.uk> wrote: > http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290416326824 > > x----------x What? I have tons of those ;-))))))
From: Helmut Sennewald on 21 Mar 2010 09:25 "Mawa_fugo" <ccon67(a)netscape.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:308d0cd3-5784-4cd8-8325-9d8cbb831776(a)z3g2000yqz.googlegroups.com... On Mar 21, 7:00 am, Peter <pe...(a)peter2000.co.uk> wrote: > http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290416326824 > > x----------x What? I have tons of those ;-)))))) JTAG-Adapters, dongles, I doubt. If somebody has to change an old Xilinx-design, he will need the right software revison plus the dongle. The latest revisions dont help, because they no more support the old FPGA devices. Helmut
From: rickman on 21 Mar 2010 11:43 On Mar 21, 9:25 am, "Helmut Sennewald" <helmutsennew...(a)t-online.de> wrote: > "Mawa_fugo" <cco...(a)netscape.net> schrieb im Newsbeitragnews:308d0cd3-5784-4cd8-8325-9d8cbb831776(a)z3g2000yqz.googlegroups.com... > On Mar 21, 7:00 am, Peter <pe...(a)peter2000.co.uk> wrote: > > >http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290416326824 > > > x----------x > > What? I have tons of those > > ;-)))))) > > JTAG-Adapters, dongles, I doubt. > > If somebody has to change an old Xilinx-design, > he will need the right software revison plus the dongle. > The latest revisions dont help, because they no more > support the old FPGA devices. > > Helmut Doesn't Xilinx provide a "Classic" version of their tools? I also have old versions of the Xilinx tools complete with dongle and programming cables. That's one of the reasons why I hate licenses. You may have everything you need, except if the PC is different you may need a new license file. That's the way it is with my current Lattice software. So far they have been happy to provide a license file for every new machine I've wanted to port the software to. But I am sure that one day that will no longer be the case and I'll be stuck! The first time I see a way to get away from these proprietary, licensed tools, I'm gone in a flash! Rick
From: D Yuniskis on 21 Mar 2010 15:22 Howdy Peter! Peter wrote: > http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290416326824 Why? Won't you need to deal with supporting older products? Regards, --don
From: rickman on 22 Mar 2010 13:14
On Mar 22, 12:34 pm, Peter <nos...(a)nospam9876.com> wrote: > rickman <gnu...(a)gmail.com> wrote > > >I also have old versions of the Xilinx tools complete with dongle and > >programming cables. That's one of the reasons why I hate licenses. > >You may have everything you need, except if the PC is different you > >may need a new license file. That's the way it is with my current > >Lattice software. So far they have been happy to provide a license > >file for every new machine I've wanted to port the software to. But I > >am sure that one day that will no longer be the case and I'll be > >stuck! > > Xilinx did this to the software I am selling. Old dongles no longer > supported, and all schematics got orphaned. Fortunately, some > enterprising chap developed a "work around" :) > > Incidentally, does Viewlogic still exist as a product? I see they were > bought by Mentor. Yes, Mentor bought them some time ago and I believe it is still a product, but with a different name. Everyone still uses schematics for board level design, so the tools will always be there. Although to a large extent, even schematics are really just pin lists. When I plop an FPGA on the drawing page I am treating it like a pin connection list tying each pin (with its pin name) to a short net with its net name. The other end of the connection is almost always on a different page with the same net name/pin name connection list. The fact that the pin names are inside a box and have numbers doesn't really make it anything much different from a pin connection table. I wonder how long it will be before we give up on schematics altogether and just write pin lists or net lists? The only real advantage to a schematic from what I have seen is that our minds are pretty good at remembering things like orientation around a dial. So the component box becomes a watch face, if you will, and we can more easily remember that signal foo is in the upper right hand corner than we can remember that it is two thirds down in the pin list. Rick |