21 May
2020
21 May
'20
9:24 a.m.
On 5/21/2020 11:07 AM, Jon Elson wrote:
On 05/20/2020 09:22 PM, Jay Jaeger via cctalk wrote:
Yes, ISE was much better than Vivado, but doesn't support the chip on my
Nexys4 Xilink development board. I do have ISE running with the
requisite DLL fixup.
JRJ
As I wrote in my last post, but write here for
use as a separate thread:
I'd be interesting in hearing from folks what toolsets they have used
for HDL (VHDL in particular).? I started with Xilinx ISE and then
graduated to Vivado for later chipsets - unfortunately, Vivado seems to
be something of a dog, in terms of time to compile HDL and synthesize
logic.
Well, I don't use the latest, super fast FPGAs, I go for old standards
that are cheap.
Right now, I have ise 13.4 installed on Linux, it seems to be stable,
quite fast for the small FPGAs
I do, and doesn't complain about my coding style.? I use mostly Spartan
3 in the
XC3S50A(N)? sizes.? I've done some units with 32-bit counters running at
150 MHz with plenty
of margin left, that's fast enough for me.? I only use VHDL, although I
can read Verilog.
(I also use Coolrunner II and XC9500XL devices in some of my products.)
Jon