Re: Book Software for XC3190A?

Software support for the 3000 series was dropped years ago. What's the
copyright date on the book that you are looking at? If the copyright is
from the early to mid-90s then the included software will support the 3000
series. If the book has been updated in recent years the chances are they
have a slightly obsolete version of Webpack included which won't support
the 3000 series.
The Book is copyright 1999 and available at amazon.de:
http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/0130216178/qid=1146409138/sr=8-10/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i10_xgl/028-0087165-6861379
But for that ISBN there are 3 Versions of this book !?!?
http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?isbn=0130216178

If the book is from the early 90s, what media are the
included tools on? Early 90s PCs had 5 1/4" floppies, good luck finding a
5 1/4" floppy drive.
That is no problem, I have some of these in my personal museum ;)

If it's on 3 1/2" floppies then you'll be able to
read them because 3 1/2" drives are still available, your system might
even have on if it's more than 2 years old. If the software is on a CDROM
that's a sure indicator that it won't have 3000 series support. By the
time that CDROMs became the standard means of distributing software
support for the 3000 series had already been dropped.
Oh, I think that will be the problem.


If what you want to do is to learn how to design with FPGAs it's not
necessary to actually build something. My suggestion would be to download
a copy of Icarus Verilog (it's free) and a copy of the current Xilinx
Webpack (also free). Do design in Verilog and debug it using Icarus. Then
you can place and route it using Webpack. 21st century FPGA designers
don't spend much time in the lab debugging on the actual hardware, the
debugging is done using a Verilog simulator.
I would like to build something, and as I wrote before I did it with the
XC9536 now it should be a little bit more.

I think it would be the best I try to find it in a library before to buy.

Thank you for the usefull information
tuxfriend

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