As one data point I'm successfully compiling designs w/o the fixed point toolboxes. I haven't tried simulating a large design which is where it's claimed to be needed with busses wider than 53 bits or whatever it is On Sep 17, 2013 7:15 PM, "Jonathan Weintroub" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi fellow CASPERians, > > This is a question that comes up periodically. At SAO we are now paying > full fare for Matlab licenses so the cost impact of an imperfect > understanding can be significant. > > The latest MSSGE wiki page is: > > > https://casper.berkeley.edu/wiki/MSSGE_Setup_with_Xilinx_14.5_and_Matlab_2012b > > However this page does not mention Matlab optional components > (historically termed toolboxes and blocksets). > > There are clues in an earlier setup page: > > https://casper.berkeley.edu/wiki/MSSGE_Toolflow_Setup > > from which it appears one needs something like: > > Fixed-Point Toolbox > > Signal Processing Blockset > > Signal Processing Toolbox > > Simulink Fixed Point > > > Each time I buy a new license I iterate on these components with the > Matlab distributer. The terminology changes year by year and I am > currently being quoted on the following components, in addition to the base > Matlab and Simulink distributions: > > SIGNAL PROCESSING TOOLBOX, V2013A > > SIMULINK FIXED POINT, V2012B > > DSP SYSTEM TOOLBOX, V2013A > > FIXED-POINT DESIGNER TOOLBOX, V2013A, > > (sorry about the all-caps which pasted in directly from the quotation). > > So it is still four components, but the names have changed. The term > blockset seems to have evolved out in favor of toolbox, one of the "signal > processing"s has morphed into "DSP", and the fixed point toolbox now has > "designer". Appropriately enough the price for this latter "designer" > component alone has more than doubled in a year to over $2k per seat. > > Having set the scene, my two questions are: > > 1. Are we ordering the right components? > > 2. Do we really need all these components? > (At one point I seem to recall hearing the fixed point stuff is to some > extent optional, though the ability to simulate properly at the Simulink > level is important to us.) > > Subject to confirmation from the tool flow experts, I will be happy to > update the wiki notes with current information. > > Thanks, > > Jonathan > > > > > > > > >
