Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] ISE Project navigator and ISE files

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Eric Blossom wrote:
> > In my experience this doesn't work very well - project navigator
> > touches it everytime you do just about everything. Also I've had PN
> > crash when you open an ise file from another platform. It also has
> > a tendency to corrupt it and recreating it by hand sucks.
> >
> > To work around this I have a script that uses the 'pjcli' tool, it
> > looks like this..
>
> Daniel, we'd love to have a better solution.  We're using 9.2.04i.
> Can you create what ever this script is and tell how to use it?  On a
> related topic, we were wondering if you really can run the xilinx

I found about it when I asked Xilinx tech support. The only commands in 
it I'm aware of are the ones I've listed below although you can infer 
parameters from PN.

I normally use 8.2 but I did try it with 9.2 when I was testing 
something and it seemed to work fine. I normally run it under FreeBSD 
and 9.2 has issues with the emulation.

> tools from a Makefile and get access to all of the options that are
> available in ISE.  In looking at the tcl log, it appears that it's
> passing most of the options by way of the .ise binary blob.

I believe you can do it - I did start writing one but I ran into 
difficulties with simulation. I don't have ModelSim and I couldn't get 
iverilog or cver to grok my code (I use Coregen cores and they don't 
like them).

I have found a few links you might be interested in WRT makefiles..
http://www.dilloneng.com/documents/downloads/gen_ise_sh/
http://www.xess.com/appnotes/makefile.html

Also if you want to use Impact in Linux then you can use this 
http://rmdir.de/~michael/xilinx/ (I'd like to build a Linux libusb that 
works with FreeBSD's USB subsystem one day :)

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