Experiments in porting Prop1 to an XC3S100E FPGA

doggiedoc

This is a work in progress with intent of documenting my learning process spurred by the release of the Parallax Propeller 1 Design.


Goal(s):
Learn more about FPGA, Propeller 1 Design, and Verilog while limiting my cost (initially) by experimenting with the hardware I already own.

Hardware:
FPGA Board - BASYS with Xilinx Spartan XC3S100E from Digilent, Inc

System:
Windows 7 VM on MacBook Pro, MacOS 10.9.4

Software:
Diligent Adept v2.3

Current Status:
efforts abandoned - see this thread



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Paul

Bill Henning

I'll be keeping a careful eye on this thread... I have several Xilinx dev boards that could benefit

doggiedoc

The software for the Xilinx board (Adept v2.3) installed in Windows 7 (win7) without a problem. I am assuming that is the correct version as these boards and software have be discontinued by Diligent.

My next step, I believe is to get Quartus installed/working. If I understand the process correctly I need to compile the source files with Quartus. I have downloaded these source files from Parallax.

pik33

No, Quartus is a compiler for Altera FPGAs.You have to use xilinx toolchain.
You have to rewrite top AHDL files to Verilog or something Xilinx can understand - Xilinx don't understand Altera's AHDL. (as far as I know, I haven't any xilinx fpgas and tools now)

doggiedoc

Thanks pik - I have realized my error. Looking at how to rewrite top AHDL files now.

Thanks again.

doggiedoc

I believe I am in over my head. I have yet to get ISE to run on my machine - and overclocked is making progress here:

http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php/156842-Xilinx-port-started...