On Nov 10, 8:59*am, -jg <jim.granvi...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Jim,
thanks for trying to help.
> ...
> Xilinx used to include some .abl source examples - if you search for
> .abl, what do you find ?

Nothing. This in what I downloaded from xilinx' site a month (or was
it a few months) ago. It installed 4-5 separate things, all useless
so far. Impact 11, ISE 11, Plan ahead 11, system generator 11, some
accelDSP 11 thing. No .abl files to be seen.
After a few hours of toying with the schematics tool I could not
make it assign pins - just put a 74161 and wanted it to compile,
no - it wants me to edit the vhdl file to finish, just does not work.
Then I tried to start that "plan ahead" thing - just as useless,
it offers me only FPGA choices. The rest of the applications appear
to be stuff I won't ever need.

I located a CD here I with their webpack 3.2 - it has survived
somehow.
It does get installed and there are 4 .abl files on it - the syntax
looks sane enough. But (on the menus) I can see no way to make it
generate a jedec file, this is probably done by the programmer
part (the second icon it installed) which just does not work,
pollutes the whole screen with "OK" windows in a loop (probably
because it does not find its programmer).

So I seem to be stuck - no Xilinx tool I have managed to locate
so far will do Abel -> jedec. Paying them up to let me do
that is not an option I would even consider.

Can you please suggest something you have used and know it
will work?

Thanks,

Dimiter

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