Arch Linux

android

Member

From: San Diego

Registered: 2003-04-18

Posts: 140

Xilinx ISE WebPACK 10.1 w/USB cable on ArchLinux-2.6.24

Greetings Human,

As some may know, Xilinx offers a downloadable version of their FPGA/CPLD programmable logic design suite, called ISE WebPACK.

There is even a version of this software that will run on a linux based development system host.

The only distributions officially supported by Xilinx are certain redhat and suse flavors.

However I found ISE WebPACK 10.1 to install and run nicely on archlinux-2.6.24.

All standalone features worked fine, but I was unable to connect with the USB download cable.

The following wiki entry documents the necessary steps for getting this USB cable support to work on post 2.6.23 kernels:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xil … nux-2.6.24

That's:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xil … nux-2.6.24

in a non-abbreviated sort of way.

So hopefully there are some other archlinux based hardware designers out there that will benifit from this info.

Happy Hardware Hacking!!!

android

Asgaroth

Member

From: Hesse, Germany

Registered: 2008-03-26

Posts: 58

Re: Xilinx ISE WebPACK 10.1 w/USB cable on ArchLinux-2.6.24

Hello,
This is not exactly related to the WebPack, but as it also is a hardware-design related issue: Did anyone manage to get the ModelSim Student Edition(I'm using the one for xilinx products on their website) running with wine, since I keep getting error about missing tcl-packages although they all seem to be in place(there seems to be no native linux version available for free)?

android

Member

From: San Diego

Registered: 2003-04-18

Posts: 140

Re: Xilinx ISE WebPACK 10.1 w/USB cable on ArchLinux-2.6.24

ISE has an integrated behavioral simulator that can be used with verilog/VHDL or captured schematics without selecting  a target device.

Maybe this could work for you?

catwell

Member

From: Bretagne, France

Registered: 2008-02-20

Posts: 207

Website

Re: Xilinx ISE WebPACK 10.1 w/USB cable on ArchLinux-2.6.24

I'll be working with Xilinx chip design tools at school soon, so thanks for the information !

JUKO

Member

Registered: 2008-11-17

Posts: 2

Re: Xilinx ISE WebPACK 10.1 w/USB cable on ArchLinux-2.6.24

Hi

I've been working to get Xilinx Platform Cable USB II working at Archlinu 2.6.27. I have tried all the methods above, with no succes. Firs truoble is the Jungo drivers, they give some compiling errors, and I have no idea, where those are from.

linux_wrappers.c:306: error: unknown field 'nopage' specified in initializer
linux_wrappers.c:307: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
linux_wrappers.c: In function 'build_dma_list_26':
linux_wrappers.c:1791: error: 'struct scatterlist' has no member named 'page'
linux_wrappers.c:1798: error: 'struct scatterlist' has no member named 'page'
linux_wrappers.c: In function 'LINUX_free_sg_dma':
linux_wrappers.c:1954: error: 'struct scatterlist' has no member named 'page'
linux_wrappers.c:1955: error: 'struct scatterlist' has no member named 'page'
linux_wrappers.c:1956: error: 'struct scatterlist' has no member named 'page'
make: *** [LINUX.2.6.27-ARCH.i386/linux_wrappers.o] Error 1

I a newbie with Linux, but have some experiece at coding and other things. It would be nice to get those drivers work, so I can concentrate to FPGA-project

JUKO

Member

Registered: 2008-11-17

Posts: 2

Re: Xilinx ISE WebPACK 10.1 w/USB cable on ArchLinux-2.6.24

Problem solved, I discarded JUNGO-drivers and took that  http://rmdir.de/~michael/xilinx/  -drivers, needs some modifying, but works fine.

hotloo

Member

From: Otaniemi, Helsinki, Finland

Registered: 2008-06-20

Posts: 33

Re: Xilinx ISE WebPACK 10.1 w/USB cable on ArchLinux-2.6.24

Thank you for the info ~~

i am gotta use Quartus instead ~~~  if there is one

---

诚朴雄伟，励学敦行