Its kind of funny. I have downloaded the software for Altera. Thats was a nice simple process and will install. I will try to figure out the tar file issue with Xilinx. But all said and done I could have hand wired dividers hours and hours ago. I guess with humor education can be painful.
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Bob Camp <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > All of these packages have a *lot* of crazy optimizations you can do. The > defaults work pretty well in Quartus with one exception. > > They are in the process of moving from their "classic timing analyzer" to > another timing analyzer (TimeQuest?). Right now the classic analyzer is > disabled by default, but it still sets it's self up ok for simple stuff. By > default you will get error messages about "timing driven synthesis" unless > you do a timing constraints file. If you just go to the timing analyzer > section and flip over to the classic analyzer, the messages will go away. > You can go back and fiddle with timing files after you have the basic design > in and running. > > The other alternative is of course to do the timing file first and then put > in the design. Nothing wrong with that, if its the work flow you prefer. > > Bob > > On Feb 4, 2010, at 11:12 PM, paul swed wrote: > > > I used the link and the file downloaded reasonably > > Install tomorrow > > Thanks > > > > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Luis Cupido <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> You may try Altera. Quatus web 9.1 is 1.5Gb and painless to setup. > >> > >> > https://www.altera.com/support/software/download/altera_design/quartus_we/dnl-quartus_we.jsp > >> > >> lc. > >> ct1dmk. > >> > >> > >> paul swed wrote: > >> > >>> I also did the web install and need to go back and add more options. > >>> How painful. Enough to drive me away from this project > >>> > >>> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Gerhard Hoffmann <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>> > >>> paul swed wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Well not having a lot of luck with the xilinx wise application. > >>>>> Its a 6.5 GB tar and after a good 5 hr plus download the tar doesn't > >>>>> open > >>>>> with zipgenious > >>>>> But 6.5 GB to work a cpld. Seems crazy to me. > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> I also had no luck two weeks ago with the single file download. > >>>> The web install worked ok, however. It downloads many smaller > >>>> files. I think my very slow DSL connection is to blame here. :-( > >>>> > >>>> Two years ago, when I still lived in Berlin, Xilinx used to have one > of > >>>> the > >>>> few servers that were capable to max out my (then) 16 MBit/s link. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> @ Ulrich: > >>>> Did you see a show stopper with the Xilinx Coolrunners? > >>>> I have used them before and liked them. Really fast and they > >>>> consume close to no power. I'd like to deploy them for something > >>>> jitter-critical very soon. > >>>> > >>>> regards, Gerhard dk4xp > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> 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. > >>>> > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>> 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. > >>> > >>> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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. > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > 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. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.
