> >>At least a couple of us have the Spartan 3E board. > > Is the ISE evaluation software time limited? > No, but there isn't any support and it doesn't work on the big/ > expensive chips.
I got confused and/or that's misleading. Let me try again. Xilinx has 2 basic software packages: ISE and Webpack. Webpack is a subset of ISE. It's free. You can pull a copy off the web. There is no support and it doesn't handle the high end chips. ISE is $. There is an evaluation package shipped with every demo/evaluation board. That is time limited. If you purchase a copy, you get support for a year. After that, for an annual fee you get support and updates. If you don't pay for support/updates, the software keeps working. At least it did several/many years ago when I last when through that dance. I doubt if that has changed but YMMV. (I assumed that the idea was that you should be able to archive the PC you used to work on a system and it would work if you turned it on after a few years to make a minor change.) Webpack is good enough to get a lot of work done. You might want some of the fancier features. You probably don't want to pay for ISE if all you are doing is hobby stuff. -- These are my opinions, not necessarily my employer's. I hate spam. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
