I recently had a look into the subject of FPGA and Protel. I was told the FPGA router is still taken from the manufacturer (in your case XILINX).
Meaning you're just using Protel to draw the schematics and send the netlist to the other tool doing the FPGA. These tools from various manufacturers are free available on the net. Since the programming interface is also in that manufacturer tool, I tend to fail recognizing the advantage of having Protel drawing the schematic. One advantage of not having the FPGA in protel is : The FPGA is a chip with pins and its internal is hidden. This allows the FPGA, in the EEPROM-type case to act as copy protection. Further, you won't have the library of functions that the XILINX tool offers. I admittedly never tried the FPGA feature of Protel. Rene ************************************************************************ * Tracking #: F1F7B1EF0462EB4F808DFB51FEE10A74C1861F3F * ************************************************************************ -- Ing.Buero R.Tschaggelar - http://www.ibrtses.com & commercial newsgroups - http://www.talkto.net Anand Kulkarni wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > I am a Graduate student and I am currently working on designing a PCB for a Xilinx >FPGA. > I have started using Protel-99-SE trial version for the same. > Recently I noticed that the support site of Protel offers 2 documents to ATS members >(altium total support) members which I might have use for. > > Now I think it may be unethical but still I think I need these 2 application notes.I >was hoping somebody in this group who is also an ATS member could help me out with >this.They ask for a valid 9-digit Serial (License) Number . > The document names are : > > 1) Attributes for FPGA Devices and > 2) Protel DXP & Xilinx Interface > > and the link is > > http://www.protel.com/resources/tutorials/index.html * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
