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Does anyone have experience running tools from Xilinx (ISE, XST)
and Lattice (ispLever) on the same Windows computer?

I've had problems in the past trying to install Xilinx and
Altera (Quartus) on the same machine.  In the end I uninstalled
the Quartus software and still had to purge my registry of any
remnants of it before the Xilinx (Foundation) tools worked
again.

Right now on one machine I'm running two versions of Xilinx,
4.1i Foundation (Aldec-based) and 6.1i ISE (XST).  I can
switch between them by changing only the Xilinx environment
variable.  I'm a bit reluctant to install the ispLever on the
same machine (although it would be convenient) after what I
went through to repair the Xilinx tools after installing
Quartus.

Regards,
Gabor

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Gabor,

I've been able to the GUI environments for ISE, ispLEVER, and Quartus
with no modifications under Win2000. However, if you run your program
executables from the command line, you will need to manage the
enviroment variables for ISE and ispLEVER since the tools use similar
executable names (NGDBuild, MAP, PAR, etc.).

I've also found conflicts between the Actel and Lattice-Editions of
Synplify which are provided with the free "starter" tools.

Best Regards,
Troy Scott
Lattice Semiconductor TME

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t...@latticesemi.com wrote:
> Gabor,
>
> I've been able to the GUI environments for ISE, ispLEVER, and Quartus
> with no modifications under Win2000. However, if you run your program
> executables from the command line, you will need to manage the
> enviroment variables for ISE and ispLEVER since the tools use similar
> executable names (NGDBuild, MAP, PAR, etc.).
>
> I've also found conflicts between the Actel and Lattice-Editions of
> Synplify which are provided with the free "starter" tools.
>
> Best Regards,
> Troy Scott
> Lattice Semiconductor TME

Thanks fo the info.  I have already installed ispLEVER on my machine.
The conflict with Quartus was not with ISE, but the older Foundation
(Aldec-based) tools.  With Quartus installed I lost the ability to
compile Abel modules (yeah we have some really old code here).  So
now I have two versions of Xilinx and ispLEVER on the same machine
and haven't found any conflicts yet (at least with Xilinx tools, I
haven't played with the ispLEVER very much yet).

Regards,
Gabor Szakacs

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