At 10:01 AM 4/30/2008, you wrote: >If you use Matlab for simulation & design, can you use Octave as >well? I seem to remember that Octave can read most Matlab files. > >I want to keep up with this thread, so if it moves elsewhere, please >let me/us know. > >Always the knowledge sponge... >Terry >WB4JFI
Unfortunately the answer is no, Xilinx has some modules that are added to MatLab to implement a MatLab to Xilinx FPGA compiler, so it's pretty much dependent on having the real thing. A couple of years ago I bought a copy of R14 that was just being replaced with version 2006, they somehow messed it up and they didn't have a copy to deliver. They sent me a copy of 2006 instead, I needed R14 so I complained but they could not find a copy so they offered some free modules to make up for it or my money back (my package was still sealed), so I received several DSP, Filter, RF modules for free. Now it's a moot point because the newer version of the Xilinx software will work with the 2006 version. That was a great deal, I paid $400 for a $1000 software package, I received a newer version instead, and I received several useful libraries for free. Also check your CD's and license codes, when I purchased my board, the CD did not look like the photos on the site or in the literature, it turned out that they sent the full blown unlimited time version instead of the one year license. >:-} I did email one of their reps before I installed the software, they were charging me sales tax and should not have, when I mentioned it to him how the CD's didn't match the pictures, and that activation serial numbers were already present he told me about the mistake in some of the kits, and not worry about it and enjoy their mistake. Cecil K5NWA www.softrockradio.org www.qrpradio.com "Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light."
