Entering The World Of FPGA's with a DEO-NANO P0082 - Part 2

RE: Entering The World Of FPGA's with a DEO-NANO P0082 - Part 2

johnbeetem — Sat, 29 Jul 2017 16:06:54 GMT

That's pretty amazing that you were able to get this working on Windows XP. A lot of IC-vendor-supplied Windows software requires at least Windows 7.

I've had decent luck with the GNU/Linux version of Xilinx's design suite (mostly ISE 12.4). However, there are some bits that don't work under Ubuntu, usually because of problems finding run-time libraries. So sometimes I have to use Windows, which I find painful and as a rule I never do so unless someone is paying me to do it.

RE: Entering The World Of FPGA's with a DEO-NANO P0082 - Part 2

DAB — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 19:38:38 GMT

Nice update Lucie.

I remember spending a lot of time with manuals open when we put together the early bit-slice designs. Long before there was VHDL, we did all this work by drawing pictures on paper and carefully going through the circuit diagram to verify the logic before we committed to the first hardware prototype.

After that it was many hours of logic analyzer and oscilloscope time to verify the inputs and outputs.

Tedious, but we still managed to do some awesome projects back in the early 1980's.

DAB