No mention of P2 on the Parallax web site!

Leon

I've just spent a few minutes looking for information about the P2 on the Parallax web site, and it seems to be conspicuous by its absence! All mention of it seems to have been removed. There used to be a page or two devoted to it.

Heater.

Given that the Propeller 2 does not exist and will not exist for at least a year and that it's whole design is under massive revision I'm not surprised.

Leon

Yes, I suppose that is the reason.

SRLM

There's still the news items:
https://www.parallax.com/news/2014-10-20/parallax-cyclone-v-fpga-development-board-programming-and-development-tool-propeller
https://www.parallax.com/news/2014-09-19/propeller-2-schedule-update-longer-we-work-simpler-our-new-multicore-design-will
https://www.parallax.com/news/2014-03-19/early-adopters-may-program-propeller-2-de2-115-fpga-development-board
https://www.parallax.com/news/2014-02-24/propeller-2-schedule-update-february-2014-read-schedule-completion-propeller-2

And the FPGAs are still there:
https://www.parallax.com/product/60056
https://www.parallax.com/product/60050

The design files are up:
https://www.parallax.com/downloads/propeller-2-design

What are you looking for?

Leon

There used to be a direct link to a page with information on the P2.

Bob Lawrence (VE1RLL)

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evanh

Geez, what a convolution to get the Quartus II Web Edition design software. I have no idea what I finally clicked on but eventually it gave a real link. Here's the Linux version direct link - http://download.altera.com/akdlm/software/acdsinst/14.1/186/ib_tar/Quartus-web-14.1.0.186-linux.tar

It's a large and slow download, make sure you are using a downloader with resume feature.

evanh

Well, the download speed shot up a lot and it's finished and installed almost without a hitch.

For some odd reason a storm of Akonadi(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akonadi) activity started occurring somewhere along that process. It was non-stop chewing a decent amount of CPU and possibly filling the HDD with garbage. After a few attempts at killing the interwoven processes it went away and hasn't seemed to return when running Quartus again.

evanh

Hmm, next reboot and the Akonadi activity was back as busy as ever ... A bit of googling and a couple of edits later and I think I've finally disabled the critter for good. It seems there is a lot of things that will trigger this problem.