[chbot] FPGAs again

[hamster]

I have a few Xilinx boards, so I have the latest Xilinx tools to hand if
anybody wants a copy to play with or see how the tools work on their PC. I
can also pass on a port of the AVR8 project from opencores if anybody is
interested in little projects like a soft atmega with a vga display on it,
which can work with the arduino IDE if desired.

I am very much FPGA-agnostic, along with OS and programming language
agnostic... I'm more a fit-for-purpose sort of guy... and Xilinx is fine
for most things. But I have seen some pretty compelling publicity material
that the Altera tools scale better to the larger FPGAs with high
utilization.



Mike

On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 12:39:08 +1200, Volker Kuhlmann
<list0570 at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> On Sat 23 Jul 2011 08:23:23 NZST +1200, hamster wrote:
> 
>> I have also recently downloaded the latest set of xilinx tools (4.2gb)
>> which includes both windows and Linux binaries. Strangely enough the
ship
>> it all as a tar.ga file. They can be used without a board, and projects
>> just simulated.
> 
> Sounds good, but I'm confused. Xilinx tools for terasic devboards using
> Altera FPGAs?
> 
> Volker