>
> Yes--I downloaded Xilinx ISE Webpack and installed it. It's real
> monster of an application. I am really lost in there.
The ISE suite has a bunch of specialized tools that are not necessary simply
for generating a bitfile. The tools you need are 'xst' which does synthesis,
'netgen', 'map', 'par' and 'bitgen'. They are described here and here.
You can make a build script with Make or Scons or whatever and keep your vi and
command line based flow entirely. That's what I do (although I use Emacs :-)
).
> It's too bad there isn't a complete open source software stack for FPGA.
>
Simulation exists and synthesis might be possible to do in open source, but the
mapping and place-and-route steps need information about the FPGA chip, which
the manufacturers are not really willing to give.
> 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.
>
If you already have a C implementation you might want to have a look at
SystemC.
Regards,
Kevin
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