Xilinx Spartan2E options?

I have a product series that has mostly moved to Spartan 3A, but one member 
of the family is still using up boards made some time ago with the 
Spartan2E.  I just found a mistake in all of the designs -- left out 
synchronizers on one input!

I fixed the Spartan3A configurations, but no longer have a version of Ise 10 
running.  Looking through some files, I see there is a directory on my Ise 
14.7 install - aISE_DS/ISE/spartan2e, so it seems at least some of the files 
needed to synthesize for the Spartan2E are there, but of course the main GUI 
doesn't allow you to select that family.  (This is on a Linux system.)

Does anyone know if Spartan2E can be synthesized on Ise 14.7 by re-enabling 
that family?  I think I can probably boot up one of the archived hard drives 
that had Ise 10 on it if I have to, but that would be a bit of a pain.  This 
should be a one-time need, just to get this one PROM file corrected.

Thanks!

Jon

On 9/25/2015 5:09 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
> I have a product series that has mostly moved to Spartan 3A, but one member
> of the family is still using up boards made some time ago with the
> Spartan2E.  I just found a mistake in all of the designs -- left out
> synchronizers on one input!
>
> I fixed the Spartan3A configurations, but no longer have a version of Ise 10
> running.  Looking through some files, I see there is a directory on my Ise
> 14.7 install - aISE_DS/ISE/spartan2e, so it seems at least some of the files
> needed to synthesize for the Spartan2E are there, but of course the main GUI
> doesn't allow you to select that family.  (This is on a Linux system.)
>
> Does anyone know if Spartan2E can be synthesized on Ise 14.7 by re-enabling
> that family?  I think I can probably boot up one of the archived hard drives
> that had Ise 10 on it if I have to, but that would be a bit of a pain.  This
> should be a one-time need, just to get this one PROM file corrected.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jon
>

I'm pretty sure that any Spartan2e info still in the latest ISE is only
for programming (BSDL files, etc.) and you can't target those parts in
14.7 (or anything after 10.1.03).

-- 
Gabor

Galina Szakacs wrote:


> 
> I'm pretty sure that any Spartan2e info still in the latest ISE is only
> for programming (BSDL files, etc.) and you can't target those parts in
> 14.7 (or anything after 10.1.03).
> 
You certainly can't select them in the GUI.  Yes, impact/BDSL may be the
reason these files remain there.

Thanks,

Jon

Jon Elson wrote:

> Galina Szakacs wrote:
> 
> 
>> 
>> I'm pretty sure that any Spartan2e info still in the latest ISE is only
>> for programming (BSDL files, etc.) and you can't target those parts in
>> 14.7 (or anything after 10.1.03).
>> 
> You certainly can't select them in the GUI.  Yes, impact/BDSL may be the
> reason these files remain there.
Well, wasn't that big of a deal.  Downloaded 10.1.03, installed it, re-
synthesized the corrected project, and it seems to work fine.  Still a bit 
more testing to do to be sure there aren't any unexpected behavior, but a 
quick check looks OK.  Thank goodness Xilinx still has these legacy versions 
available!

Jon