[Fpga-synth] ISE 9.2i

[Scott Gravenhorst]

"The making of synthesizers in FPGAs." wrote:
>
>On Aug 12, 2007, at 5:52 AM, Scott Gravenhorst wrote:
>
>> Yes, in fact, the output from Impact says that it can't find one of 
>> the BSD files.
>> Yet, when I look with Explorer, it is there.
>
>You didn't put any spaces in the name of the directory you installed 
>9.2 in did you? That always causes the Windows-based Xilinx tools to 
>fail spectacularly.

No, I found that out the hard way (and posted to the Wiki!) the first time I did it.

>>> Overall it sounds like a bad install. I thought zipfiles had checksums
>>> in them to bail on corrupt files though, so I'm curious how that's
>>> possible.
>>
>> I was never able to get the entire 1.7 G zip file.  Instead, I did the 
>> webinstall
>> (which took most of the day yesterday).
>
>I've tried a Web install a few times. On Linux it failed, but it worked 
>OK on WinXP.
>
>> I have another disk drive, I may throw that drive into this box, 
>> reinstall win2K on
>> it and try a fresh 9.2i installation and see what happens.  That's 
>> also something I
>> really don't care to spend two days on, but I'm running out of choices.
>>
>
>Sounds like a good fallback. Tedious though.

Yeah, I know, but it's the next step because I'll be damned if I can find or detect
the source of the problem within the Verilog code.  I understand the theory, I've
implemented the theory in C where it works exactly as expected, but the FPGA project
fails and while it's failing, it doesn't exhibit the arithmetic anomolies I would expect.

What I actually expect is that I'll install a fresh win2k, a fresh 9.2i, then I'll
compile the project and watch it fail the same way...  If it doesn't, even our
European members will hear my verbal shouting and cursing.

But if the compiler at least works without crashing and performs at least as well as
8.2i, I will then know it works, at least from a fresh install.


-- ScottG

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-- Scott Gravenhorst
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