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hello

as i mentioned earlier, i'm a beginner with fpgas. in fact, this is
the first time i'm configuring an fpga....

I am using the XUP Virtex2Pro Development board, device : XCV2P30,
with EDK 9.1i
I also have the Platform USB 2 cable (A-B) which i came to know, can
be used to configure the fpga....
I wanted to know the procedure to configure the fpga... using EDK? or
iMPACT?

Please help out asap....

Thanks in advance...

Vikram

Hi,

Unless you're using EDK for your design, iMPACT is the way to go. Here
is a tutorial that describes the steps you would use on a Spartan-3
demo board. I'm not familiar with the board you're using but, but the
same general steps usually apply. Start at the bottom of page 8
("Select the Configure Device (iMPACT) under the Generate Programming
File...").

http://ece.wpi.edu/~rjduck/Spartan%2...20tutorial.pdf

Regards,
-- Hauke D

Hi,

Whoops, apologies, I misread your original post, I guess you are using
EDK It's been a while since I worked with EDK, but as long as
you're generating .bit files you can use iMPACT to configure your FPGA
with the same procedure. I forget if and how EDK provides
functionality to configure the FPGA directly...

Regards,
-- Hauke D

"Hauke D" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Hi,
>
> Whoops, apologies, I misread your original post, I guess you are using
> EDK It's been a while since I worked with EDK, but as long as
> you're generating .bit files you can use iMPACT to configure your FPGA
> with the same procedure. I forget if and how EDK provides
> functionality to configure the FPGA directly...

EDK just front-ends the ISE tools with support for embedded development. It
uses iMPACT to configure the target device, just as it continues to use XST
and DataMem for their related functions.

Thanks....

MikeWhy wrote:

> "Hauke D" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > Hi,
> >
> > Whoops, apologies, I misread your original post, I guess you are using
> > EDK It's been a while since I worked with EDK, but as long as
> > you're generating .bit files you can use iMPACT to configure your FPGA
> > with the same procedure. I forget if and how EDK provides
> > functionality to configure the FPGA directly...
>
> EDK just front-ends the ISE tools with support for embedded development. It
> uses iMPACT to configure the target device, just as it continues to use XST
> and DataMem for their related functions.