Re: gEDA-user: CPLDs and other high-density logic chips...

2006-09-04 Thread John Sheahan
Joshua Boyd wrote: For a long time, the WebPack edition was windows only, but starting somewhere in Version 7, the WebPack is also available for Linux. Officially only RHEL3 was supported. I tried it on RHEL3, and the main ISE program still didn't want to work (badly broken file browser, and I

Re: gEDA-user: CPLDs and other high-density logic chips...

2006-09-03 Thread John Sheahan
Samuel A. Falvo II wrote: On 9/3/06, Bob Paddock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For example, if you were to pick xilinx, and with what you have > > mentioned, you might want to drop the cpld, Xilinx CoolRunner family of parts are still worth looking at if low power is the overriding goal. If

Re: gEDA-user: CPLDs and other high-density logic chips...

2006-09-02 Thread John Sheahan
Samuel A. Falvo II wrote: I am working on a project that, in the end, may require me to utilize a CPLD just to get the thing working and cost-effective. But I really have no knowledge of how to prototype with such beasts. Is there a body of resources that you folks would recommend to a *total*

Re: gEDA-user: CD ISO install Issues

2006-08-29 Thread John Sheahan
Stuart Brorson wrote: * Your Linux distro and version (e.g. Fedora Core 3, SuSE 9.3, or whatever) * Some explanation about why you thought you needed to copy everything to the hard drive. That is, what happened leading you to take this step? his cdrom is being mounted noexec, this

Re: gEDA-user: Renumber in PCB/Was/Is List

2006-08-15 Thread John Sheahan
DJ Delorie wrote: This is pretty standard functionality in commercial packages. The board stuffers like to have the components in a logical arrangement(R10 is near R9, etc.). I always numbered mine by pages, like all R100-R199 were on schematic page 1, etc. They tended to get grouped together

Re: gEDA-user: Proposed text for gEDA download page

2006-08-02 Thread John Sheahan
kmk wrote: The page might point exlicitly to distributions that need no download at all because they natively include the geda tools. It should mention, that the distribution may not feature the most recent version, but it will reduce installation pains (to zero). At the moment this is true for

Re: gEDA-user: Icarus Verilog for post synthesis simulation

2006-08-02 Thread John Sheahan
Günter Dannoritzer wrote: Hi, Is anybody using Icarus Verilog for post synthesis simulation? I have had better success with gplcver for this phase. At least in 0.8x specify block support in icarus seems unusual. john Is there a way to compile the SIMPRIM library from Xilinx into a library

Re: gEDA-user: Iverilog-0.8.2 -- does it support % for reals?

2006-07-24 Thread John Sheahan
Stuart Brorson wrote: Can somebody confirm that Icarus supports/doesn't support the modulo operator for reals? I'm very willing to believe that my problem has to do with my head being wedged, but I just want to make sure that Icarus supports the operation I want to perform. Stuart from

Re: gEDA-user: Iverilog

2006-07-21 Thread John Sheahan
it looks like iverilog does not accept +define+.v from the command line, but as it is the default, not a big issue. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ iverilog -y lib test.v && ./a.out out is 0 at 0 out is 1 at 25 out is 2 at 35 out is 3 at 45 perhaps your module file is not called module_name.v ?? jo

Re: gEDA-user: Iverilog

2006-07-21 Thread John Sheahan
User Tomdean wrote: Is this off topic? How do I cause iverilog to pick up modules from files? I tried '-I../modules' if the module fred is in the file fred.v, then add the directory path -y dirpath and tell the tool the file suffix with +libext+.v (for the .v extension )) -I is for thing

Re: gEDA-user: Help request

2006-06-21 Thread John Sheahan
al davis wrote: 1. I don't recommend using Ubuntu to build software. Ubuntu doesn't come with the usual build tools (gcc, header files and all that) installed. That's why you had all the dependecies to deal with. Ubuntu is good for e-mail and text editing, but not at all good for the task you