In Xilinx EDK 9.2.02, when I select the Xilinx Spartan 3A1800 DSP Starter Kit, the base-system-builder doesn't give me the option of adding the SystemACE peripheral to the hardware environment. In a text-editor, I manually examined ./board/Xilinx/boards/Xilinx_S3ADSP1800_RevA/data/Xilinx_S3ADSP1800_RevA_v2_2_0.xbd The interface and I/O declarations related to the SystemACE peripheral are commented out... What's the status of the hardware on the board? Is there a known problem, or is it just untested?
no SystemACE on Xilinx Spartan 3A 1800 DSP in EDK 9.2.02
Started by ●January 1, 2008
Reply by ●January 2, 20082008-01-02
On Jan 1, 12:07=A0pm, ata <a...@ata.nnet> wrote:> In Xilinx EDK 9.2.02, when I select the Xilinx Spartan 3A1800 DSP > Starter Kit, the base-system-builder doesn't give me the option of > adding the SystemACE peripheral to the hardware environment. > > In a text-editor, I manually examined > ./board/Xilinx/boards/Xilinx_S3ADSP1800_RevA/data/Xilinx_S3ADSP1800_RevA_v=2=AD_2_0.xbd> > The interface and I/O declarations related to the SystemACE peripheral > are commented out... > > What's the status of the hardware on the board? =A0Is there a known > problem, or is it just untested?The 1800ADSP board was tested with the Avnet SystemACE Module (www.em.avnet.com/systemace). I believe the reason this feature is commented out in the XBD file is that it is not a standard feature that ships with the board. However, the end user can enable it by uncommenting the lines in the XBD. Bryan
Reply by ●January 3, 20082008-01-03
On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 09:14 -0800, Bryan wrote:> On Jan 1, 12:07 pm, ata <a...@ata.nnet> wrote: > > In Xilinx EDK 9.2.02, when I select the Xilinx Spartan 3A1800 DSP > > Starter Kit, the base-system-builder doesn't give me the option of > > adding the SystemACE peripheral to the hardware environment. > > > > In a text-editor, I manually examined > > ./board/Xilinx/boards/Xilinx_S3ADSP1800_RevA/data/Xilinx_S3ADSP1800_RevA_=v2=C2=AD_2_0.xbd> > > > The interface and I/O declarations related to the SystemACEperipheral> > are commented out... > > The 1800ADSP board was tested with the Avnet SystemACE Module > (www.em.avnet.com/systemace). I believe the reason this feature is > commented out in the XBD file is that it is not a standard feature > that ships with the board. However, the end user can enable it by > uncommenting the lines in the XBD.Ahh, that makes sense! Thank you. For a minute there, I thought this was another one of those deja-vu=20 moments where Xilinx published the marketing specs of a product=20 before they had a chance to validate the feature-set on actual production units (*cough* Virtex-4/FX...)
