On Wednesday, 11/30/2022 4:54 PM, Cy Drollinger wrote:
> I have some old chips and in light of the shortages I continually see despite the 52 week lead time thrown around in the summer of 2020, I would like to develop with them. Specifically, I am talking about Spartan 3E parts and would like to know about setting up a stable toolchain with Win10 or 11. This could include Ubunutu 20.04 on WSL2. Does anyone have a decent recipe to develop these chips. My last development of FPGA was on a custom development board and I utilized a make file calling the necessary tools to create the binary from the ISE tools:
>
> rem Makefile to compile and download a simple VHDL program
>
>
> rem program.ngc: fpga.vhd
> echo run -ifn fpga.vhd -ifmt VHDL -ofn program -p xc3s100e-4-vq100 -opt_mode Speed -opt_level 1 | xst
>
> rem program.ngd: program.ngc fpga.ucf
> ngdbuild -p xc3s100e-4-vq100 -uc fpga.ucf program.ngc
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> rem program.ncd: fpga.ngd
> map -detail -pr b program.ngd
>
> rem parout.ncd: program.ncd
> par program.ncd parout.ncd program.pcf
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> rem load_program.bit: parout.ncd
> bitgen -g StartUpClk:CClk -g CRC:Enable parout.ncd load_program.bit program.pcf
>
> rem load_program.bin: load_program.bit
> promgen -w -p bin -o load_program.bin -u 0 load_program.bit
>
> Thank you for your consideration,
>
> Cy Drollinger
The latest version of Xilinx ISE, 14.7, runs on Windows 10 and supports
Spartan 3E. I always used ISE from the Project Navigator GUI, but I
believe you should be able to run your command line builds with it.
--
Gabor
Reply by funkenzupfer●December 1, 20222022-12-01
> I have some old chips and in light of the shortages I continually see despite the 52 week lead time thrown around in the summer of 2020, I would like to develop with them. Specifically, I am talking about Spartan 3E parts and would like to know about setting up a stable toolchain with Win10 or 11. This could include Ubunutu 20.04 on WSL2. Does anyone have a decent recipe to develop these chips. My last development of FPGA was on a custom development board and I utilized a make file calling the necessary tools to create the binary from the ISE tools:
Reply by Cy Drollinger●November 30, 20222022-11-30
I have some old chips and in light of the shortages I continually see despi=
te the 52 week lead time thrown around in the summer of 2020, I would like =
to develop with them. Specifically, I am talking about Spartan 3E parts and=
would like to know about setting up a stable toolchain with Win10 or 11. T=
his could include Ubunutu 20.04 on WSL2. Does anyone have a decent recipe t=
o develop these chips. My last development of FPGA was on a custom developm=
ent board and I utilized a make file calling the necessary tools to create =
the binary from the ISE tools:
rem Makefile to compile and download a simple VHDL program
rem program.ngc: fpga.vhd
echo run -ifn fpga.vhd -ifmt VHDL -ofn program -p xc3s100e-4-vq100 -opt_m=
ode Speed -opt_level 1 | xst
rem program.ngd: program.ngc fpga.ucf
ngdbuild -p xc3s100e-4-vq100 -uc fpga.ucf program.ngc
rem program.ncd: fpga.ngd
map -detail -pr b program.ngd
rem parout.ncd: program.ncd
par program.ncd parout.ncd program.pcf
rem load_program.bit: parout.ncd
bitgen -g StartUpClk:CClk -g CRC:Enable parout.ncd load_program.bit progr=
am.pcf
rem load_program.bin: load_program.bit
promgen -w -p bin -o load_program.bin -u 0 load_program.bit
Thank you for your consideration,
Cy Drollinger