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From: rombios on 23 May 2010 02:40 I bought a few of these on ebay but I cant find Xilinx Xact software needed to design with these FPGAs Can someone point me in the right direction? Anyone have a copy I can buy? sincerely hungry student
From: Ed McGettigan on 23 May 2010 23:49 On May 22, 11:40 pm, rombios <h...(a)here.com> wrote: > I bought a few of these on ebay but I cant find Xilinx Xact software > needed to design with these FPGAs > > Can someone point me in the right direction? > Anyone have a copy I can buy? > > sincerely > hungry student These devices are not worth your time and energy to try to use. Get a low cost Spartan-3A board and use the free ISE Webpack software. Ed McGettigan -- Xilinx Inc.
From: John Adair on 24 May 2010 01:11 I'd second Ed's opinion. These devices were released circa 20-25 years ago and their only useful place now is a museum. Almost anyone that does have software for these will have a reason like long term product maintainence and they are unlikely to let go the software. John Adair Enterpoint Ltd. - Home of Merrick1. The FPGA HPC Solution. On 23 May, 07:40, rombios <h...(a)here.com> wrote: > I bought a few of these on ebay but I cant find Xilinx Xact software > needed to design with these FPGAs > > Can someone point me in the right direction? > Anyone have a copy I can buy? > > sincerely > hungry student
From: fpgahobbyist on 24 May 2010 03:03 > These devices are not worth your time and energy to try to use. Get a > low cost Spartan-3A board and use the free ISE Webpack software. > > Ed McGettigan Id like to build a board around these chips (simple projects to aid the learning process - which is not limited to hdl digital design but board manufacturing as well). More "modern" fpgas come in formfactors that make it all but impossible to solder at home. The xc2xxx and xc3xxx chips come in plcc68/84 arrangements. I can buy plcc to dip sockets cheap from many online electronic retailers as well as ebay. I did something like these for the xc9xxxx CPLD's which are still supported in xilinx webpack software Listen, it would really help if I can buy XACT. I dont need support, just the software. If its reached end-of-life, I assume you guys would post it AS IS on some ftp server link right? For what its worth future projects that advance past what am working on would benefit from the spartan series ...
From: Mike Harrison on 24 May 2010 04:30
On 24 May 2010 07:03:32 GMT, fpgahobbyist <nothere(a)onearth.com> wrote: >> These devices are not worth your time and energy to try to use. Get a >> low cost Spartan-3A board and use the free ISE Webpack software. >> >> Ed McGettigan > >Id like to build a board around these chips (simple projects to aid the >learning process - which is not limited to hdl digital design but board >manufacturing as well). > >More "modern" fpgas come in formfactors that make it all but impossible >to solder at home. There are plenty of FPGA DIP modules out there. |