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-	Digilent Adept to program the Atlys board can be obtained from the Digilent website.
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-	Note that some Xilinx scripts require GNU BASH. Ubuntu (and possibly others) come with DASH.
-	Disable DASH by reconfiguring it:
-	sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash
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-	Note that the tools available on Windows, such as Xilinx ISE/PlanAhead and Modelsim are not supported by drift on Linux.
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-	To enable autocompletion and history in XMD:
-	rlwrap xmd
	=== Starting xterm with all tools available ===		=== Starting xterm with all tools available ===
-	Note that all files were moved to from midgard to bifrost in december 2011. This means that if you did the following in november 2011, you will have to do it again to make it work.
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	===First time initialization ===		===First time initialization ===
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	To start PlanAhead type planAhead		To start PlanAhead type planAhead
	etc		etc
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		+	=== temporary fix for using questa ===
		+	in the .bash_fpgatools in the ~/fpgatools folder:
		+	comment the MODEL TECH line, and replace With a newer line, like this:
		+	# MODEL_TECH=/ifi/bifrost/project0/nano/programs/modelsim/modeltech
		+	MODEL_TECH=/ifi/bifrost/project0/robin/programs/installed/questa_10_1/questasim
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		+	this will make sure that when you write vsim, questa is started rather than modelsim.
		+
		+	=== Digilent Adept ===
		+	Digilent Adept to program the Atlys board can be obtained from the Digilent website.
		+
		+	Note that some Xilinx scripts require GNU BASH. Ubuntu (and possibly others) come with DASH.
		+	Disable DASH by reconfiguring it:
		+	sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash
		+
		+	Note that the tools available on Windows, such as Xilinx ISE/PlanAhead and Modelsim are not supported by drift on Linux.
		+
		+	To enable autocompletion and history in XMD:
		+	rlwrap xmd
	== License server ==		== License server ==

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Revision as of 10:33, 26 August 2015

Contents 1 FPGA tools on Windows 2 FPGA tools on Linux 2.1 Starting xterm with all tools available 2.2 First time initialization 2.3 Launch 2.4 temporary fix for using questa 2.5 Digilent Adept 3 License server 4 Robin Peripheral Repository 5 Academic Xilinx FPGA tools

FPGA tools on Windows

Vivado 2012.2 and 2014.1, Xilinx ISE, and questa is currently situated on ifiserv-854.ifi.uio.no Please notify the engineer in ROBIN if there are issues.

2428, LISP was installed with the newest available ISE, and questa

FPGA tools on Linux

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Catapult_C
FormalPro
Modelsim
Xilinx

Starting xterm with all tools available

First time initialization

>cd ~
>mkdir fpgatools
>cd fpgatools/
>/hom/mes/src/FPGATools/init_fpgatools

Note that when starting using run, you get an xterm with .bash_fpgatools (invisible when using ls-l) as source. Since spring 2012, we have moved the license file to tollheimtu from pordoi. The .bash_fpgatools will need to be upgraded either manually or by doing the initialization over again.

Launch

>cd ~/fpgatools
>run

Use the new xterm window that pops up to start the FPGA tool you like. Paths to all the major components should be ready in the new xterm.

To start Modelsim type vsim
To start Xilinx (ISE) type ise 
To start PlanAhead type planAhead
etc

temporary fix for using questa

in the .bash_fpgatools in the ~/fpgatools folder: comment the MODEL TECH line, and replace With a newer line, like this:

# MODEL_TECH=/ifi/bifrost/project0/nano/programs/modelsim/modeltech
MODEL_TECH=/ifi/bifrost/project0/robin/programs/installed/questa_10_1/questasim

this will make sure that when you write vsim, questa is started rather than modelsim.

Digilent Adept

Digilent Adept to program the Atlys board can be obtained from the Digilent website.

Note that some Xilinx scripts require GNU BASH. Ubuntu (and possibly others) come with DASH. Disable DASH by reconfiguring it:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash

Note that the tools available on Windows, such as Xilinx ISE/PlanAhead and Modelsim are not supported by drift on Linux.

To enable autocompletion and history in XMD:

rlwrap xmd

License server

Licenses can be checked out from lisens.ifi.uio.no:

export LM_LICENSE_FILE=5370@lisens.ifi.uio.no

On Windows:

setx LM_LICENSE_FILE 5370@lisens.ifi.uio.no

Robin Peripheral Repository

The ROBIN EDK repository is located at:

\\bifrost.ifi.uio.no\project0\robin\CADlib\spartan3EDK2012 

It contains BSP for the Spartan3 Starter Board.

Set "Project Peripheral Reposotory Search Path" in XPS to enable it.

Academic Xilinx FPGA tools

Python interface to Xilinx/EDK MHS: https://github.com/EPiCS/reconos/tree/master/tools

XDL Format description: http://www.mn.uio.no/ifi/english/research/projects/cosrecos/publications/paper/recosoc11beckhoff.pdf

Bitstream Intepretation Library (Virtex5): https://github.com/florianbenz/bil

DeBit: http://code.google.com/p/debit/

GoAhead: http://www.mn.uio.no/ifi/english/research/projects/cosrecos/goahead/

Creating Hard Macros (guide): http://wiki.eng.iastate.edu/reconfigurable-computing-wiki/index.php/Creating_Hard_Macros

TORC: http://torc-isi.sourceforge.net/

ReconOS: https://github.com/EPiCS/reconos