XUP Virtex-II Pro "invalid target architecture"

I just installed and updated both the EDK and ISE 7.1
I'm using the XUP Virtex-II Pro, and downloaded the accompanying BSB
package.

When I generate a design using BSB (selecting the XUP as a design
platform of course) I notice two things:

A second DDR memory is added to the peripheral list, altough I have no
idea where it comes from and what it does (it's called
DDR-DRAM<something>). However, the biggest problem is that I cannot
start the bitstream generation, it quits immediatly with:

ERROR:MDT - Invalid target architecture 'xc2vp30ff896-7'
ERROR:MDT - Invalid target architecture ''
ERROR:MDT - platgen failed with errors!
make: *** [implementation/system.bmm] Error 2
Done.

How can I fix this? Any help would be appreciated.

What do you mean by the peripheral list?

That's what the target architecture should be.  

Never run across either of these--can you post the *.mhs and *.xmp
files?

Paul

"zoinks@mytrashmail.com" wrote:
> 
> I just installed and updated both the EDK and ISE 7.1
> I'm using the XUP Virtex-II Pro, and downloaded the accompanying BSB
> package.
> 
> When I generate a design using BSB (selecting the XUP as a design
> platform of course) I notice two things:
> 
> A second DDR memory is added to the peripheral list, altough I have no
> idea where it comes from and what it does (it's called
> DDR-DRAM<something>). However, the biggest problem is that I cannot
> start the bitstream generation, it quits immediatly with:
> 
> ERROR:MDT - Invalid target architecture 'xc2vp30ff896-7'
> ERROR:MDT - Invalid target architecture ''
> ERROR:MDT - platgen failed with errors!
> make: *** [implementation/system.bmm] Error 2
> Done.
> 
> How can I fix this? Any help would be appreciated.

<zoinks@mytrashmail.com> wrote in message 
news:1125675810.601949.45830@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
>I just installed and updated both the EDK and ISE 7.1
> I'm using the XUP Virtex-II Pro, and downloaded the accompanying BSB
> package.
>
> When I generate a design using BSB (selecting the XUP as a design
> platform of course) I notice two things:
>
> A second DDR memory is added to the peripheral list, altough I have no
> idea where it comes from and what it does (it's called
> DDR-DRAM<something>). However, the biggest problem is that I cannot
> start the bitstream generation, it quits immediatly with:
>
> ERROR:MDT - Invalid target architecture 'xc2vp30ff896-7'
> ERROR:MDT - Invalid target architecture ''
> ERROR:MDT - platgen failed with errors!
> make: *** [implementation/system.bmm] Error 2
> Done.
>
> How can I fix this? Any help would be appreciated.
>

Installed any service packs yet ?
7.1 was unuseable for me without service packs for exactly the same setup.

Alex 

I installed the EDK and ISE service packs. I still get the same error,
even after re-creating the system from scratch

to use the XUP board I simply d/l-ed and copied the XUPv2P pack to a
dir and specified that during the BSB. Did I forget to do something?

With the peripheral list I mean the list that is shown at the end of
the BSB. In particular the drop-down list you see when you are to
select in which memory peripheral the test-software should be loaded.

All the weird behaviour only occurs when I choose to use external DDR
memory.

I'll post the project when I have access to it.

ok I think I know what is wrong:

Something went wrong during the installation of the ISE or the SDK. In
my list of available devices, only some spartans and the Virtex2 and
Virtex4 are listed. When I select one of the virtex, the program gives
an error message that it cannot find the specified device size.

Is there a way to add those devices to the system?

Probably the easiest thing to do is uninstall and reinstall both ISE and
EDK.

Nothing is likely to work if the underlying install is suspect.

Paul

"zoinks@mytrashmail.com" wrote:
> 
> ok I think I know what is wrong:
> 
> Something went wrong during the installation of the ISE or the SDK. In
> my list of available devices, only some spartans and the Virtex2 and
> Virtex4 are listed. When I select one of the virtex, the program gives
> an error message that it cannot find the specified device size.
> 
> Is there a way to add those devices to the system?

<zoinks@mytrashmail.com> wrote in message 
news:1125922969.715822.250980@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> ok I think I know what is wrong:
>
> Something went wrong during the installation of the ISE or the SDK. In
> my list of available devices, only some spartans and the Virtex2 and
> Virtex4 are listed. When I select one of the virtex, the program gives
> an error message that it cannot find the specified device size.
>
> Is there a way to add those devices to the system?
>

Sounds like you may have missed a cd ?

Yes it's weird. I had three CD's: two of them said CD 1, and one said
CD 2.
The "second" CD1 was said to be the "international" version. However,
it gave "missing file" errors when it started to install a certain part
(can't remember what), but as far as I could see it was installing
exactly the same things that the "other" CD1 already installed.

So I only installed from the first CD1 and CD2. I'll try to reinstall
when I have time. For the moment I gave up on 7.1 and I'm still working
with the 6.3 version.

Stupid that I didn't realize this before....ugh....got a lot on my mind
lately :)

Anyone else had this problem too? (Or at least could give me some info
about those weird two CD1's) 

I would appreciate it.

That's really weird--I cannot remember the last time I installed and
don't have the CDs anywhere around.  

In all this, don't forget that the XUPV2P EDK support files "requires
EDK v7.1 with SP2 and ISE v7.1 with SP3."

Good Luck!
Paul

"zoinks@mytrashmail.com" wrote:
> 
> Yes it's weird. I had three CD's: two of them said CD 1, and one said
> CD 2.
> The "second" CD1 was said to be the "international" version. However,
> it gave "missing file" errors when it started to install a certain part
> (can't remember what), but as far as I could see it was installing
> exactly the same things that the "other" CD1 already installed.
> 
> So I only installed from the first CD1 and CD2. I'll try to reinstall
> when I have time. For the moment I gave up on 7.1 and I'm still working
> with the 6.3 version.
> 
> Stupid that I didn't realize this before....ugh....got a lot on my mind
> lately :)
> 
> Anyone else had this problem too? (Or at least could give me some info
> about those weird two CD1's)
> 
> I would appreciate it.

Thanks, yes I installed the EDK and all the servicepacks. They didn't
give me any trouble, luckely:)