Hello all.

I'm looking for a good FPGA develoment kit for Linux platform.

I used some Xilinx FPGA and CPLDs using muy custom board and ISE under
Microsoft. :-P
I also worked with Altera Nios dev Kit, but also forced to use Quartus
under Microsoft :-P
Although both say that they sale the same software for Linux. It's more
expensive and/or only for RedHat Enterprise! (and 32bits) :-PP

Do you know any solution or alternative to this?.

Thanks
Peco

Juan José 'Peco' San Martín ha scritto:
Hi Peco, Xilinx ISE WebPack should work fine under Linux too: - it is free like its MS Windows counterpart (Quartus is not); - it will work under other distros as well (even if not officially supported). Ciao, Fabrizio -- ============================================ Fabrizio Fazzino - fabrizio at fazzino.it Fazzino.IT - http://www.fazzino.it ============================================

Hi Peco, Try this http://www.dinigroup.com I work with DN3000k10 and suse. Best regards. Odin Skovsted -----Original Message----- From: cores-bounces at opencores.org [mailto:cores-bounces at opencores.org] On Behalf Of Juan José 'Peco' San Martín Sent: 31. januar 2007 11:12 To: cores at opencores.org Subject: [oc] FPGA Dev Kit for Linux Hello all. I'm looking for a good FPGA develoment kit for Linux platform. I used some Xilinx FPGA and CPLDs using muy custom board and ISE under Microsoft. :-P I also worked with Altera Nios dev Kit, but also forced to use Quartus under Microsoft :-P Although both say that they sale the same software for Linux. It's more expensive and/or only for RedHat Enterprise! (and 32bits) :-PP Do you know any solution or alternative to this?. Thanks Peco _______________________________________________ http://www.opencores.org/mailman/listinfo/cores

Juan José 'Peco' San Martín wrote:


I'm using Altera Quartus v6.1 under Debian Etch. Works nicely, including
the gui. No special problems with installation either. Have not tried
using any programming/jtag cables though.

Quartus seems to support 64 bit linux.

But yes, you have to pay for it, the free "web edition" is not available
for linux.

Best regards
Gunnar

Centos is free and fully compatible with software designed exclusively for RedHat. In general 64 bit x86 versions of Linux run 32 bit code just fine (at least RH EL 3 and 4). At most, you might have to install 32-bit versions of some libraries in addition to the 64-bit versions. May not be as good as 64-bit version for a large project, but at least it will work and the main OS will be 64-bit. -----Original Message----- From: cores-bounces at opencores.org [mailto:cores-bounces at opencores.org] On . . . Although both say that they sale the same software for Linux. It's more expensive and/or only for RedHat Enterprise! (and 32bits) :-PP . . .

As others have pointed out, the Xilinx software should run on other Linux distributions, they just don't support them. There is also a free clone of Enterprise Linux. Take a look at www.whiteboxlinux.org. I have seen both ISE Foundation and EDK running on it. Regards, John McCaskill Faster Technology LLC Web: http://www.fastertechnology.com
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Hi

I am running the xilinx tools ISE and EDK under Debian Sarge, Etch and Sid.
The worst problem is the cable drivers. You need the newest Jungo driver,
and even then i have problems with the usb cable with our XUP board. After
first connecting the board and loading the firmware with fxload the running
board has to be unplugged and plugged in again to get it working.

tar xzf WD802.tar.gz
cd WinDriver/redist
./configure
make
chown a+rw /dev/windrvr6

create file /etc/udev/rules.d/00-xilinxusb.rules
ENV{UDEVD_EVENT}=="1", ACTION=="add", SYSFS{idVendor}=="03fd", SYSFS{idProduct}=="0007", RUN+="/sbin/fxload -v -t fx2 -I /etc/hotplug/usb/xusbdfwu.fw/xusbdfwu.hex -D $env{DEVNAME}"
ENV{UDEVD_EVENT}=="1", ACTION=="add", SYSFS{idVendor}=="03fd", SYSFS{idProduct}=="0009", RUN+="/sbin/fxload -v -t fx2 -I /etc/hotplug/usb/xusbdfwu.fw/xusbdfwu.hex -D $env{DEVNAME}"
ENV{UDEVD_EVENT}=="1", ACTION=="add", SYSFS{idVendor}=="03fd", SYSFS{idProduct}=="000b", RUN+="/sbin/fxload -v -t fx2 -I /etc/hotplug/usb/xusbdfwu.fw/xusbdfwu.hex -D $env{DEVNAME}"
ENV{UDEVD_EVENT}=="1", ACTION=="add", SYSFS{idVendor}=="03fd", SYSFS{idProduct}=="000d", RUN+="/sbin/fxload -v -t fx2 -I /etc/hotplug/usb/xusbdfwu.fw/xusbdfwu.hex -D $env{DEVNAME}"
ENV{UDEVD_EVENT}=="1", ACTION=="add", SYSFS{idVendor}=="03fd", SYSFS{idProduct}=="000f", RUN+="/sbin/fxload -v -t fx2 -I /etc/hotplug/usb/xusbdfwu.fw/xusbdfwu.hex -D $env{DEVNAME}"

ACTION=="add", DEVPATH=="/module/windrvr6", RUN+="/bin/rm -f /dev/windrvr6"
ACTION=="add", DEVPATH=="/module/windrvr6", PROGRAM="/bin/grep windrvr6 /proc/devices" RUN+="/bin/mknod -m 0666 /dev/windrvr6 c %c{1} 0"
ACTION=="remove", DEVPATH=="/module/windrvr6", RUN+="/bin/rm -f /dev/windrvr6"

then call setup_pcusb in $XILINX_ISE/bin/lin/

If s.o. knows how to avoid replugging the XUP board i would be thankful.
ST

On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 13:47 +0100, Gunnar Dahlgren wrote:

I have run the Xilinx ISE tools under both Ubuntu and Gentoo successfully for several years. As mentioned above, the cable drivers are going to give you more trouble than anything else. I have had no luck in getting the cable drivers to work with a 64-bit kernel. You also might want to pay attention to Xilinx's supported kernel version information with regard to these cable drivers, it may save you some sleep. Also, the JTAG version of the programming cable has given me nothing but trouble, I'd avoid it if you have the choice. On 1/31/07, Juan José 'Peco' San Martín peco at microbotica.es> wrote:

On 02/02/07 09:43, Jeremy Fillingim wrote:

The JTAG programming cable is the greatest thing since sliced bread :) I recommend xc3sprog. It works very well and is very simple. For now you can grab the sources here: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/x/xc3sprog/ Jeff I've had trouble trying to upload things to the opencores cvs or I would upload this there.

Wow, I don't know what I was thinking when I typed that. I meant to say the USB version of the programming cable was nothing but trouble. On 2/6/07, Jeff Carr basilarchia at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi there-- you say you have run the ISE tools under Ubuntu.
Could you provide any advice for me on how I might get this successfully
installed on my machine? I just started using Ubuntu at home and would very
much like to break free of my windows machine. I will be perfectly happy to
use the parallel JTAG cable, 150 bucks for a USB cable is ridiculous.
I cannot even get the install program to run for the 9.1i version, I get a
Bus error on line 30-something.

I found a page in french describing how to install version 8.1i on Ubuntu
6.06 and tried to follow that (I'm also not picky about version, as long as
I get something that functions), but I keep getting a checksum error on the
.sh file. The page (translated of course) says that if you get a checksum
error you need to "continue" the download of the file, or re-download it,
neither of which work for me.

Honestly, if it's the easiest way to go, I might just wipe out my machine
and start over with CentOS, but I'd rather be able to put it on Ubuntu since
I already have that up and running.
Or perhaps I can try doing all of my VHDL editing in wine, and use this
sc3prog to do my JTAG programming?
Any insight is much appreciated,

Thanks,

Steve



Jeremy Fillingim wrote:

Aha. Update:
Every time I attempted to download the software from Xilinx's website I got
those checksum errors as I described before. I have no idea why...
I found the single file download version of 8.2i at some old mirror/archive
site, and was able to complete the install with that file.

Steve


hvymtlsteve wrote:

I was able to download 9.1i and install it on Fedora Core 4 with no
problems. I know it sounds silly, but try to download the file on a
windows machine a FTP (in binary mode) to your Linux machine.

Clint

On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, hvymtlsteve wrote:

Perhaps because you've logged out. If your net is too slow, you need to re-log every 5 or 10 minutes. Stef 2007/2/26, hvymtlsteve thesteveman_ice9 at yahoo.co.jp>: