Xilinx Spartan2E options?

[Jon Elson]

I have a product series that has mostly moved to Spartan 3A, but one member
of the family is still using up boards made some time ago with the
Spartan2E. I just found a mistake in all of the designs -- left out
synchronizers on one input!

I fixed the Spartan3A configurations, but no longer have a version of Ise 10
running. Looking through some files, I see there is a directory on my Ise
14.7 install - aISE_DS/ISE/spartan2e, so it seems at least some of the files
needed to synthesize for the Spartan2E are there, but of course the main GUI
doesn't allow you to select that family. (This is on a Linux system.)

Does anyone know if Spartan2E can be synthesized on Ise 14.7 by re-enabling
that family? I think I can probably boot up one of the archived hard drives
that had Ise 10 on it if I have to, but that would be a bit of a pain. This
should be a one-time need, just to get this one PROM file corrected.

Thanks!

Jon

 

[Jon Elson]

Galina Szakacs wrote:

I'm pretty sure that any Spartan2e info still in the latest ISE is only
for programming (BSDL files, etc.) and you can't target those parts in
14.7 (or anything after 10.1.03).

You certainly can't select them in the GUI. Yes, impact/BDSL may be the
reason these files remain there.

Thanks,

Jon

 

[Galina Szakacs]

On 9/25/2015 5:09 PM, Jon Elson wrote:

I have a product series that has mostly moved to Spartan 3A, but one member
of the family is still using up boards made some time ago with the
Spartan2E. I just found a mistake in all of the designs -- left out
synchronizers on one input!

I fixed the Spartan3A configurations, but no longer have a version of Ise 10
running. Looking through some files, I see there is a directory on my Ise
14.7 install - aISE_DS/ISE/spartan2e, so it seems at least some of the files
needed to synthesize for the Spartan2E are there, but of course the main GUI
doesn't allow you to select that family. (This is on a Linux system.)

Does anyone know if Spartan2E can be synthesized on Ise 14.7 by re-enabling
that family? I think I can probably boot up one of the archived hard drives
that had Ise 10 on it if I have to, but that would be a bit of a pain. This
should be a one-time need, just to get this one PROM file corrected.

Thanks!

Jon

I'm pretty sure that any Spartan2e info still in the latest ISE is only
for programming (BSDL files, etc.) and you can't target those parts in
14.7 (or anything after 10.1.03).

--
Gabor

 

[Jon Elson]

Jon Elson wrote:

Galina Szakacs wrote:



I'm pretty sure that any Spartan2e info still in the latest ISE is only
for programming (BSDL files, etc.) and you can't target those parts in
14.7 (or anything after 10.1.03).

You certainly can't select them in the GUI. Yes, impact/BDSL may be the
reason these files remain there.

Well, wasn't that big of a deal. Downloaded 10.1.03, installed it, re-
synthesized the corrected project, and it seems to work fine. Still a bit
more testing to do to be sure there aren't any unexpected behavior, but a
quick check looks OK. Thank goodness Xilinx still has these legacy versions
available!

Jon