[time-nuts] DMTD mixer question
Hal Murray
hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Sat Dec 27 07:38:02 UTC 2008
> >>At least a couple of us have the Spartan 3E board.
> > Is the ISE evaluation software time limited?
> No, but there isn't any support and it doesn't work on the big/
> expensive chips.
I got confused and/or that's misleading. Let me try again.
Xilinx has 2 basic software packages: ISE and Webpack.
Webpack is a subset of ISE. It's free. You can pull a copy off the web.
There is no support and it doesn't handle the high end chips.
ISE is $. There is an evaluation package shipped with every demo/evaluation
board. That is time limited. If you purchase a copy, you get support for a
year. After that, for an annual fee you get support and updates.
If you don't pay for support/updates, the software keeps working. At least
it did several/many years ago when I last when through that dance. I doubt
if that has changed but YMMV. (I assumed that the idea was that you should
be able to archive the PC you used to work on a system and it would work if
you turned it on after a few years to make a minor change.)
Webpack is good enough to get a lot of work done. You might want some of the
fancier features. You probably don't want to pay for ISE if all you are
doing is hobby stuff.
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