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Is it possible to use Vivado in place of Xilinx ISE 14.7 (Licensed) for
B210 FPGA development.
Right now I am having Xilinx ISE 14.7 (Licensed), but in a couple of months
I have to switch to Vivado for some reasons.
Also how difficult it is to port ISE project to Vivado.
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Sumit kumar
Doctoral Student, UPMC
Eurecom, BIOT
France
No, as far as I know, it's impossible so far.
I doubt you can simply take the ISE project and use it in Vivado –
there's a reason Ettus built a pretty complex build system around ISE
and Vivado.
Best regards,
Marcus
On 25.05.2016 12:08, Sumit Kumar via USRP-users wrote:
Is it possible to use Vivado in place of Xilinx ISE 14.7 (Licensed)
for B210 FPGA development.
Right now I am having Xilinx ISE 14.7 (Licensed), but in a couple of
months I have to switch to Vivado for some reasons.
Also how difficult it is to port ISE project to Vivado.
--
Sumit kumar
Doctoral Student, UPMC
Eurecom, BIOT
France
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I am a bit confused with the reply :)
What is impossible ? Using Vivado instead of ISE Or Porting ISE project to
Vivado ? I guess you meant second one.
On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Marcus Müller usrp-users@lists.ettus.com
wrote:
No, as far as I know, it's impossible so far.
I doubt you can simply take the ISE project and use it in Vivado – there's
a reason Ettus built a pretty complex build system around ISE and Vivado.
Best regards,
Marcus
On 25.05.2016 12:08, Sumit Kumar via USRP-users wrote:
Is it possible to use Vivado in place of Xilinx ISE 14.7 (Licensed) for
B210 FPGA development.
Right now I am having Xilinx ISE 14.7 (Licensed), but in a couple of
months I have to switch to Vivado for some reasons.
Also how difficult it is to port ISE project to Vivado.
--
Sumit kumar
Doctoral Student, UPMC
Eurecom, BIOT
France
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Sumit kumar
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Both, at the moment.
On 25.05.2016 12:59, Sumit Kumar wrote:
I am a bit confused with the reply :)
What is impossible ? Using Vivado instead of ISE Or Porting ISE
project to Vivado ? I guess you meant second one.
On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Marcus Müller
<usrp-users@lists.ettus.com mailto:usrp-users@lists.ettus.com> wrote:
No, as far as I know, it's impossible so far.
I doubt you can simply take the ISE project and use it in Vivado –
there's a reason Ettus built a pretty complex build system around
ISE and Vivado.
Best regards,
Marcus
On 25.05.2016 12:08, Sumit Kumar via USRP-users wrote:
Is it possible to use Vivado in place of Xilinx ISE 14.7
(Licensed) for B210 FPGA development.
Right now I am having Xilinx ISE 14.7 (Licensed), but in a couple
of months I have to switch to Vivado for some reasons.
Also how difficult it is to port ISE project to Vivado.
--
--
Sumit kumar
Doctoral Student, UPMC
Eurecom, BIOT
France
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What is impossible ? Using Vivado instead of ISE Or Porting ISE project to
Vivado ? I guess you meant second one.
Well it's of course possible ....
You just have to do all the conversion work of the build system
yourself ... there is no documented or supported or easy option.
Cheers,
Sylvain
Notice that you'll have to convert things like constraint files, and
it's already so that at some point, different versions of ISE generated
designs with different timing, so you're not only converting a project
between two different IDEs, you're also fixing what timing problems that
might introduce.
Best regards,
Marcus
On 25.05.2016 14:12, Sylvain Munaut wrote:
What is impossible ? Using Vivado instead of ISE Or Porting ISE project to
Vivado ? I guess you meant second one.
Well it's of course possible ....
You just have to do all the conversion work of the build system
yourself ... there is no documented or supported or easy option.
Cheers,
Sylvain
So many issues are involved here in porting !
If this is the scene, I may have to login thru SSH at my department server
from my workplace to access ISE and do the things remotely. My new
workplace seems to have Vivado only.
:-/
On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 2:17 PM, Marcus Müller marcus.mueller@ettus.com
wrote:
Notice that you'll have to convert things like constraint files, and
it's already so that at some point, different versions of ISE generated
designs with different timing, so you're not only converting a project
between two different IDEs, you're also fixing what timing problems that
might introduce.
Best regards,
Marcus
On 25.05.2016 14:12, Sylvain Munaut wrote:
What is impossible ? Using Vivado instead of ISE Or Porting ISE project
to
Vivado ? I guess you meant second one.
Well it's of course possible ....
You just have to do all the conversion work of the build system
yourself ... there is no documented or supported or easy option.
Cheers,
Sylvain
--
Sumit kumar
Doctoral Student, UPMC
Eurecom, BIOT
France
Logging in via SSH and doing stuff remotely doesn't sound any bad; I do
that all the time.
Ettus' FPGA build system was meant for the case that you want to
build something remotely and automatedly, and not bother with clicking a
series of buttons.
Since you should be able to, without any problems, use the free editions
of ISE to do the development, and since git should really be your friend
if you're doing modifications on an existing code base, I really don't
think this is much of a drawback.
Best regards,
Marcus
On 25.05.2016 15:35, Sumit Kumar wrote:
So many issues are involved here in porting !
If this is the scene, I may have to login thru SSH at my department
server from my workplace to access ISE and do the things remotely. My
new workplace seems to have Vivado only.
:-/
On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 2:17 PM, Marcus Müller
<marcus.mueller@ettus.com mailto:marcus.mueller@ettus.com> wrote:
Notice that you'll have to convert things like constraint files, and
it's already so that at some point, different versions of ISE
generated
designs with different timing, so you're not only converting a project
between two different IDEs, you're also fixing what timing
problems that
might introduce.
Best regards,
Marcus
On 25.05.2016 14 <tel:25.05.2016%2014>:12, Sylvain Munaut wrote:
What is impossible ? Using Vivado instead of ISE Or Porting ISE
project to
Vivado ? I guess you meant second one.
Well it's of course possible ....
You just have to do all the conversion work of the build system
yourself ... there is no documented or supported or easy option.
Cheers,
Sylvain
--
Sumit kumar
Doctoral Student, UPMC
Eurecom, BIOT
France
Just to clear up any confusion, it is not possible to use Vivado with the
B2xx USRPs. This is due to the fact that the B2xx USRPs use Spartan 6 FPGAs
and Vivado does not support the Spartan 6 series (and likely never will.)
Xilinx has an Answer Record confirming this:
http://www.xilinx.com/support/answers/53109.html
Jonathon
On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 8:39 AM, Marcus Müller usrp-users@lists.ettus.com
wrote:
Logging in via SSH and doing stuff remotely doesn't sound any bad; I do
that all the time.
Ettus' FPGA build system was meant for the case that you want to build
something remotely and automatedly, and not bother with clicking a series
of buttons.
Since you should be able to, without any problems, use the free editions
of ISE to do the development, and since git should really be your friend if
you're doing modifications on an existing code base, I really don't think
this is much of a drawback.
Best regards,
Marcus
On 25.05.2016 15:35, Sumit Kumar wrote:
So many issues are involved here in porting !
If this is the scene, I may have to login thru SSH at my department server
from my workplace to access ISE and do the things remotely. My new
workplace seems to have Vivado only.
:-/
On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 2:17 PM, Marcus Müller marcus.mueller@ettus.com
wrote:
Notice that you'll have to convert things like constraint files, and
it's already so that at some point, different versions of ISE generated
designs with different timing, so you're not only converting a project
between two different IDEs, you're also fixing what timing problems that
might introduce.
Best regards,
Marcus
On 25.05.2016 14:12, Sylvain Munaut wrote:
What is impossible ? Using Vivado instead of ISE Or Porting ISE
project to
Vivado ? I guess you meant second one.
Well it's of course possible ....
You just have to do all the conversion work of the build system
yourself ... there is no documented or supported or easy option.
Cheers,
Sylvain
--
Sumit kumar
Doctoral Student, UPMC
Eurecom, BIOT
France
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You will never be able to use any version of Vivado with the USRP B210.
It is *not possible *in this case. The B210 contains a Xilinx Spartan-6
XC6SLX150 FPGA.
The Xilinx Vivado toolchain only supports 7-series devices (Virtex 7, Artix
7, Kintex 7, Zynq, Zynq UltraScale). In fact, Ettus Research did upgrade
the X-series build scripts to transition from ISE to Vivado (which contain
Kintex-7 FPGAs) a little over a year ago:
http://lists.ettus.com/pipermail/usrp-users_lists.ettus.com/2015-May/013835.html
You will continue to need the licensed version of Xilinx ISE 14.7 to use
the Spartan 6 LX150 FPGA on the B210. You can use the free WebPack version
of ISE 14.7 for the B200, which has a Spartan 6 LX75T.
-Robin
On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 6:39 AM, Marcus Müller usrp-users@lists.ettus.com
wrote:
Logging in via SSH and doing stuff remotely doesn't sound any bad; I do
that all the time.
Ettus' FPGA build system was meant for the case that you want to build
something remotely and automatedly, and not bother with clicking a series
of buttons.
Since you should be able to, without any problems, use the free editions
of ISE to do the development, and since git should really be your friend if
you're doing modifications on an existing code base, I really don't think
this is much of a drawback.
Best regards,
Marcus
On 25.05.2016 15:35, Sumit Kumar wrote:
So many issues are involved here in porting !
If this is the scene, I may have to login thru SSH at my department server
from my workplace to access ISE and do the things remotely. My new
workplace seems to have Vivado only.
:-/
On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 2:17 PM, Marcus Müller marcus.mueller@ettus.com
wrote:
Notice that you'll have to convert things like constraint files, and
it's already so that at some point, different versions of ISE generated
designs with different timing, so you're not only converting a project
between two different IDEs, you're also fixing what timing problems that
might introduce.
Best regards,
Marcus
On 25.05.2016 14:12, Sylvain Munaut wrote:
What is impossible ? Using Vivado instead of ISE Or Porting ISE
project to
Vivado ? I guess you meant second one.
Well it's of course possible ....
You just have to do all the conversion work of the build system
yourself ... there is no documented or supported or easy option.
Cheers,
Sylvain
--
Sumit kumar
Doctoral Student, UPMC
Eurecom, BIOT
France
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