strange letter from Xilinx

[Jon Elson]

In 2001 I bought a seat of Xilinx Foundation (before Ise).
I did not renew the service contract because it was working fine,
and then Ise and WebPack came out.

I had to go to the post office to sign for a certified letter.
In it was a check for $0.03 reimbursing me for an overcharge
on state sales tax. I hate to think how much it cost them to
repay this, with clerical costs, printing the check, sending out
the certified mail, etc.

Jon

 

[Gabor]

Jon Elson wrote:

In 2001 I bought a seat of Xilinx Foundation (before Ise).
I did not renew the service contract because it was working fine,
and then Ise and WebPack came out.

I had to go to the post office to sign for a certified letter.
In it was a check for $0.03 reimbursing me for an overcharge
on state sales tax. I hate to think how much it cost them to
repay this, with clerical costs, printing the check, sending out
the certified mail, etc.

Jon

Probably less than they spent on lawyers going back and forth
with Aldec about "uncounted seats." By the way, if you
support any designs built with old Foundation package, hold
onto it. The new ISE stuff doesn't read the old (Aldec-based)
Foundation projects.

-- Gabor

 

[Jon Elson]

Gabor wrote:

Probably less than they spent on lawyers going back and forth
with Aldec about "uncounted seats." By the way, if you
support any designs built with old Foundation package, hold
onto it. The new ISE stuff doesn't read the old (Aldec-based)
Foundation projects.
Oh, I am ALL too well aware of this. I have a couple designs on

old 5V Spartan, but hopefully there will never be any revisions
of those. I hated the Aldec schematic entry so much I crafted
a way to use Protel to generate the structural VHDLm but then these
files needed to be edited a bit. It was a big mistake, but I
did eventually move almost everything over to "real" VHDL.

I am staying with Ise 10.1 to retain compatibility with Spartan IIE
chips until those migrate to something newer.

Jon

 

[Mawa_fugo]

On Apr 11, 2:27 pm, Jon Elson <jmel...@wustl.edu> wrote:

Gabor wrote:

Probably less than they spent on lawyers going back and forth
with Aldec about "uncounted seats."  By the way, if you
support any designs built with old Foundation package, hold
onto it.  The new ISE stuff doesn't read the old (Aldec-based)
Foundation projects.

Oh, I am ALL too well aware of this.  I have a couple designs on
old 5V Spartan, but hopefully there will never be any revisions
of those.  I hated the Aldec schematic entry so much I crafted
a way to use Protel to generate the structural VHDLm but then these
files needed to be edited a bit.  It was a big mistake, but I
did eventually move almost everything over to "real" VHDL.

I am staying with Ise 10.1 to retain compatibility with Spartan IIE
chips until those migrate to something newer.

Jon

ahh.. I believe many still hold on the Fndtn series, started with 1.4
and ended up with 4.2 ...

 

[Jon Elson]

Mawa_fugo wrote:

On Apr 11, 2:27 pm, Jon Elson <jmel...@wustl.edu> wrote:
Gabor wrote:

Probably less than they spent on lawyers going back and forth
with Aldec about "uncounted seats."  By the way, if you
support any designs built with old Foundation package, hold
onto it.  The new ISE stuff doesn't read the old (Aldec-based)
Foundation projects.

Oh, I am ALL too well aware of this.  I have a couple designs on
old 5V Spartan, but hopefully there will never be any revisions
of those.  I hated the Aldec schematic entry so much I crafted
a way to use Protel to generate the structural VHDLm but then these
files needed to be edited a bit.  It was a big mistake, but I
did eventually move almost everything over to "real" VHDL.

I am staying with Ise 10.1 to retain compatibility with Spartan IIE
chips until those migrate to something newer.

Jon

ahh.. I believe many still hold on the Fndtn series, started with 1.4
and ended up with 4.2 ...
I've still got the CDs for 3.1, and 4.2, and maybe some others.

Currently, I only have Ise loaded, and hope not to need to go back to those
older packages.

Jon