University of California at Berkeley Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences Instructional & Electronics Support Group /share/b/pub/xilinx.help /share/b/pub/chipscope.help /share/b/pub/ise.help Oct 16 2015 CONTENTS Xilinx Products for Classes Xilinx Manuals Xilinx Licenses Troubleshooting Xilinx Products for Classes --------------------------- Xilinx Integrated Software Environment (ISE) is design software for programmable logic and system design. ISE Foundation includes advanced timing driven implementation tools, along with design entry, synthesis and verification capabilities. Xilinx System Generator software enables high-level modeling and implementation of DSP systems in Xilinx Platform FPGAs. See http://www.xilinx.com for more information. These circuit design, control and test software products from Xilinx (http://xilinx.com) are available to EECS classes: ChipScope http://www.xilinx.com/ise/optional_prod/cspro.htm Integrated Software Environment (ISE) http://www.xilinx.com/ise/products/foundation_config.htm ISE Synthesis http://www.xilinx.com/products/design_resources/design_tool/grouping/synthesis.htm ISE Foundation and the System Generator http://www.xilinx.com/products/software/sysgen/sg_intro.htm Available on Windows systems in 125 Cory or CS150. Xilinx programs are no longer available on any Instructional UNIX systems. Xilinx Manuals -------------- On-line manuals for Xilinx products: http://support.xilinx.com/support/sw_manuals/xilinx4/ http://support.xilinx.com/support/sw_manuals/xilinx5/ http://toolbox.xilinx.com/docsan/xilinx4/data/docs/xug/flow5.html#1001085 is a reference to the ISE Synthesis tools, including: XST (from Xilinx) FPGA Express (from Synopsys) Synplify (from Synplicity) LeonardoSpectrum (from Exemplar) A reference for CS152 and the Calinx boards: http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/pub.cgi?file=cs152.help Xilinx Licenses --------------- License servers for research and instructional labs in EECS are currently run by BWRC and the Instructional Support Group. (Contacts are richards@eecs and inst@eecs). For EECS-affiliated grad students, faculty and staff, there is password- protected information at https://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~inst/xilinx/ about accessing the instructional Xilinx license server and listing the licensed products. Students can purchase the "Xilinx Student Edition" from Prentice Hall for about $54. References: - http://vig.prenhall.com/search/ (search for "Xilinx student") Troubleshooting --------------- The Xilinx CORE Generator produced this dire error message: ERROR:coreutil - Failure to generate output products ERROR:coreutil - An error occurred while running Java. Please examine the console or coregen log file for a specific IP related error. If there is no specific error the problem may be due to memory limitations. For more information please consult solution record 21955 available from: http://www.xilinx.com/xlnx/xil_ans_display.jsp?getPagePath=21955 The real problem was that the user was trying to write the output to a read-only folder. The solution was to write the output to C:\TEMP or U:. Instructional & Electronics Support Groups inst@eecs.berkeley.edu (377 Cory) esg@eecs.berkeley.edu (386 Cory, 333 Soda)