Yes--I downloaded Xilinx ISE Webpack and installed it. It's real monster of an application. I am really lost in there.
It's too bad there isn't a complete open source software stack for FPGA. I've been using vi and GHDL so far to test my VHDL code to ensure it works with a testbench and wave viewer (as per a tutorial I went through). My goal is to re-implement a neural model that I found C++ far too slow to be useful for, due to fluid dynamics. The learning curve is high for me but I am patient. My neural model can do spectacular things that others don't but I haven't impressed anyone, because it's vastly to slow. Given digital input/output, it classifies and identifies distinct repeated patterns (perceptual and/or action -- interaction patterns) along with their inter-relationships both relative and absolute. So it builds internal models of external phenomenon and reports when they are identified and to what degree of confidence (higher frequency of digital output means higher confidence). It's actually not that complicated, though. That is all emergent behavior. Each receptor on a neuron is I think about the complication of a flipflop. Matthew On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 6:00 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Send Ghdl-discuss mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/ghdl-discuss > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Ghdl-discuss digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. bit files (Matthew Tedder) > 2. Re: bit files (Kevin Steffensen) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 22:54:24 -0500 > From: Matthew Tedder <[email protected]> > Subject: [Ghdl-discuss] bit files > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Hi. Although I've been program since 14 years old (now 40), I am new to VHDL. > > I bought a BASYS 2 FPGA development board and downloaded the Adept > software with instructions on encoding a bit file onto it. Actually, > the Adapt kit appears to be an SDK enabling me to write something to > burn it in there. > > Big question, though, how can I get a bit file? I've read VHDL > tutorials, wrote and compiled simple VHDL files and looked at waves > but don't see any documentation on how to create the bit file Amy FPGA > board documentation says I need to actually encode the board. > > Any pionters would be greatly appreciated. > > Matthew > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 08:23:09 +0100 > From: Kevin Steffensen <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Ghdl-discuss] bit files > To: <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > > GHDL does not do synthesis, only simulation. So GHDL can not generate a bit > file for you. You need the Xilinx ISE tools for that. They are available for > free download for certain smaller FPGA's or for $ for larger FPGA's. I'm > pretty sure you can use the free edition for the Spartan 3E on the BASYS 2 > board. > > I don't have any experience with the Adept SDK is but it appears to me to be > a tool strictly for programming the BASYS 2 board once you have a bit file. > > When you have generated a bit file and programmed your FPGA and it doesn't do > what you expect, then you turn to GHDL to find out whats wrong. :-) > > Regards, > Kevin > >> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 22:54:24 -0500 >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [Ghdl-discuss] bit files >> >> Hi. Although I've been program since 14 years old (now 40), I am new to >> VHDL. >> >> I bought a BASYS 2 FPGA development board and downloaded the Adept >> software with instructions on encoding a bit file onto it. Actually, >> the Adapt kit appears to be an SDK enabling me to write something to >> burn it in there. >> >> Big question, though, how can I get a bit file? I've read VHDL >> tutorials, wrote and compiled simple VHDL files and looked at waves >> but don't see any documentation on how to create the bit file Amy FPGA >> board documentation says I need to actually encode the board. >> >> Any pionters would be greatly appreciated. >> >> Matthew >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Ghdl-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/ghdl-discuss > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: </public/ghdl-discuss/attachments/20101117/9cb9c5f0/attachment.htm> > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Ghdl-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/ghdl-discuss > > > End of Ghdl-discuss Digest, Vol 62, Issue 8 > ******************************************* > _______________________________________________ Ghdl-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/ghdl-discuss
