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In article <33DCD75C.29D3@uqtr.uquebec.ca>,
Sam Falaki <Falaki@uqtr.uquebec.ca> wrote:
>I have been mostly doing work in "academia". Now however, I need to
>make a commercial prototype and I'm worried that my design could be
>copied. Anyone have any suggestions? ...
The first and most important thing you should do is to decide whether it's
worth investing serious effort in protecting your design. What's in it?
Is there actually a significant innovation in it -- something that would
be patentable, and worth patenting if the patent system wasn't so useless?
Unless you're working in some unusual situation (e.g., the game industry),
a design that requires time and effort but contains nothing new and weird
is simply not going to be worth stealing. Time spent on major anti-copy
precautions for such a design is wasted, and should be spent on something
productive instead.
--
Committees do harm merely by existing. | Henry Spencer
-- Freeman Dyson | henry@zoo.toronto.edu
Article: 7076Does somebody know, how ASIC-vendors calculate NRE costs? Which values are typical today for 0.35um/0.25um? Thank you. Best regards Martin martin.vorbach@scrap.de Fon +49 721 97243 35 Fax +49 721 97243 28Article: 7077
> -----Original Message----- > From: sidhu@halcyon.usc.edu (Reetinder P. S. Sidhu) > [SMTP:sidhu@halcyon.usc.edu] > Posted At: Saturday, July 26, 1997 1:01 PM > Posted To: fpga > Conversation: FPGA die photograph > Subject: FPGA die photograph > > Would anyone know where I could get the photo of an FPGA silicon chip? > I need it for a presentation. Thanks in advance. > > Reetinder Sidhu > [M.Vorbach] Try "Scientific American" issue 6/97 or 7/97, there is an article about reconfig. computing and a photo of an FPGA die. I believe itīs a XILINX.Article: 7078
> Dear fellows, > > I'm doing a functional simulation of a 4028EX design that has several > three-state output lines with vss and the new M1 simprim library. > The vhdl entity that I'm simulating has been generated by ngd2vhdl > after design translation. This is the only kind of functional > simulation that I can do with this design, as it contains several > RPM macros from .xnf files. > My impression is that the three-state output buffer is not simulated > well, as the output lines are always defined as X"????" in vss. > I also checked that the GTS net was low giving the "assign '0' gts" > command before running the simulation but this didn't help. > > Has anyone had this problem before ? > > thanks in advance > [M.Vorbach] I had a similar problem a couple of months before, using VERILOG and the very buggy FinTronic simulator (distributed by VERIBEST). My problem was a simulator bug: If I designed a bus containing 16 wires and tried to simulate it I always got XXXX. After I extended the bus to 17 wires , but my stimuli and port interface used only 16 wires, the simulation result was OK. Not very satisfying, just a workaround.Article: 7079
Hi all. I am working on a project using Actel 1280 FPGA's. However, This FPGA would eventually be used to control another piece of ASIC, whose performance characteristic is not entirely clear to us. (Custom ASIC, no manufacturer to provide fancy manual, we figure it out) So We'd like to do some prototyping. Which involve the following set of tasks. 1. provide an init sequence/string to the ASIC. 2. provide a regular alternating set of signals to the ASIC. 3. upon triggering, te ASIC would provide a trigger, the FPGA would stop the alternating set of signals, and go into the third sequence of signals to digitize some analog signals, and then serially clock out the data. The serial data then has to be converted to paralle, and decoded (it's in gray code) I had though about going ahead and use the Actel to do this, except that since the exact performance characterisitic of the custom ASIC isn't known, we'd like to fiddle with the sequence, and timing of the signals. And as we all know, the Actel isn't too amiable to being reprogrammed :) I also thought about using something like GAL's, since I know I can get basically free tools to program them, and the language isn't too terribly difficult to pick up. However, GAL's are too small for my purpose in this case. What FPGA/PLD's would be best for my purpose of generating about 14 control signals, probably requiring about 50 to 100 FF's for latching in various signals, and generate the control state machine. It should be easily reprogrammable, and the programming language should be simple to pick up. (I do know VHDL). The programming software should be inexpensive. (prefer free), and I need to develope this piece of hardware in a giffy. Experience with Altera? BTW, the target speed of the system is 4 to 8 MHz, but we'd like to push to 16 MHz, and see what the performance is like. Your input is greatly appreciated.Article: 7080
In article <33dd49ff.55145054@news.netcomuk.co.uk>, Peter <z80@dserve.com> wrote: > >> Either way all FPGAs suck tremendously in performance and per unit cost >> compared to gate array or standard cell ASIC implementation. I redid a >> 8000 gate FPGA built in a 0.6 um process with a 10,000 gate gate array (I >> added a few extra functions) in a nearly obsolete two metal 1.0 um process. >> The FPGA only ran at about 2/3 of the maximum target clock frequency, the >> gate array twice as fast as needed. The gate array was about 25% the cost >> (for a relatively low volume video capture and processing VME card) of the >> FPGA and the gate array NRE plus my time was paid for after selling less >> than a 100 units. (This didn't even include the cost of maintaining the >> FPGA fuse files and programming parts on the production floor). >> >> A good compromise is if you can design system ASIC(s) to be drop in compatible >> with an existing FPGA. The system can be brought up earlier with the FPGA and >> lab testing and evaluation can provide valuable input to the final ASIC design >> (and even reduced capability early beta units to customers). Sometimes some FPGA >> samples might run fast enough under benign or conditions to run a few systems at >> full speed prior to sampling the ASIC. OK where did you go to fab the parts? What were the exact mask costs? hmm. i'm interested. -bobby mozumder. > >Well put. No suprise here :) > > >Peter. > >Return address is invalid to help stop junk mail. >E-mail replies to z80@digiserve.com.Article: 7081
David T. Wang wrote: > > Hi all. > > I am working on a project using Actel 1280 FPGA's. However, This FPGA > would eventually be used to control another piece of ASIC, whose > performance characteristic is not entirely clear to us. (Custom ASIC, > no manufacturer to provide fancy manual, we figure it out) So We'd > like to do some prototyping. Which involve the following set of > tasks. > > 1. provide an init sequence/string to the ASIC. > > 2. provide a regular alternating set of signals to the ASIC. > > 3. upon triggering, te ASIC would provide a trigger, the FPGA would > stop the alternating set of signals, and go into the third sequence > of signals to digitize some analog signals, and then serially clock > out the data. The serial data then has to be converted to paralle, > and decoded (it's in gray code) > An approach I have seen used for flexible CCD imager control is to keep the control logic relatively simple and to use a downloadable RAM as a high speed arbitrary pattern generator. That way you can just edit the pattern to change the timing and don't need to recompile a bunch of logic every time. Don't recall the reference, but could look it up if you want. regards, tom (tburgess@drao.nrc.ca)Article: 7082
Sam Falaki <Falaki@uqtr.uquebec.ca> wrote: >Hi all, >I have been mostly doing work in "academia". Now however, I need to >make a commercial prototype and I'm worried that my design could be >copied. Anyone have any suggestions? For example do one-time >programmable FPGAs offer more security? I don't have the money to >pay expensive lawyers (patent protection, etc). I would like a quick >and easy solution if possible however all suggestions are welcome. In short, FPGA security is pretty good, at least at the design level. However, at the binary level there is a wide difference. It's quite hard to read the code out of a one-time programmable device. It's much easier to read the bit stream in an SRAM type device (e.g. Xilinx / Orca). I think FPGA security is just like any other security...the more time and energy you put into it, the better it is. I do a fair about of reverse engineering for patent infringement investigation, and given enough time and money, there is no FPGA (or other IC for that matter) that can't be reverse engineered. I think the first thing to decide is whether or not you're protecting the product design or the binary source files. Sure, knowing the binary stream in a XILINX FPGA will allow you to reproduce it, but without knowing the design you would never be able to support the product. Another concern is manufacturing. A lot of companies will blow their security fuses, but that will leave them without any way of reading a part for failure analysis. They end up protecting their product, but at the expense of poor product quality. ----------------------------------------------------- Wade D. Peterson | TEL: 612.722.3815 Consultant to Industry | FAX: 612.722.5841 3525 E. 27th St. No. 301 |---------- EMAIL ---------- Minneapolis, MN 55406 | peter299@maroon.tc.umn.edu ---------------- Committed to Quality ---------------Article: 7083
> Mauro Olivieri <olly@dibe.unige.it> wrote in article > does anyone have information on the RIPP10 board from Altera? you can get some information about the RIPP10 board, and our new board the ARC-PCI, at our web site "http://www.altera.com/html/programs/phd.html" or call me on 408-544-7666, or e-mail me at sjsmith@altera.com for more information. Regards, StephenArticle: 7084
>Either that or make FFs capable of clocking on both edges of a >clock so that some can run at double speed. Now THAT is an excellent idea. Peter. Return address is invalid to help stop junk mail. E-mail replies to z80@digiserve.com.Article: 7085
>>With the older Xilinx devices, one could attach a L attribute to a >>local clock net (forces it onto a long line), add a SC=1 (skew below >>1ns) attribute, and that would do it. This was with the old (1991) APR >>program. With the new devices (and using PPR) this doesn't work. > >How deeply disappointing. Will M1 fix this? I didn't think it was a s/w problem. I think it is a property of the newer (faster) devices. It looks like the clock-Q delay is now so much shorter than the mux propagation delays, that using the normal FPGA interconnect methods for clock distribution is almost impossible, if driving any closely-coupled structure like a shift reg or a counter. But you got me thinking. It is *possible* that XACT6/PPR (which is the "best" I have, and all I can afford) does have a bug which causes it to sometimes not notice a situation where multiple D-types are clocked from the same (non-global) clock net, and maybe it routes the clock to just one of them halfway around the die. And maybe APR didn't have this problem. When I was doing an ASIC recently, I had a fair number of gated clocks in the design, and I found that with APR everything worked perfectly - through perhaps a hundred compilations. (This was a BIG design). Then, the gate count went up (due to new "customer input") and APR could no longer pack it into the 3090 for which my prototype PCB was designed. So I got XACT6/PPR, and sure enough that packed the gates in more easily, but about 1 compilation in 3 I found that some specific features (e.g. a 40-bit counter which I used to implement a simple RTC) didn't work. Specifically, parts of it clocked OK, but the carry didn't propagate correctly to the rest of the stages. This is indicative of an excessive delay in the clock input to one of the D-types. If there was a *general* problem with mux delays, then I would have expected that counter to almost never work at all. APR never did this. I was never able to go back to APR, partly because it never occured to me then that this might be an APR/PPR issue, and partly because APR would not have routed the enlarged design. I now also note that when I do a new build (using the newest devices, e.g. a fast 3064A) of a product originally done with APR (and originally using the slowest/cheapest 3064 available) and never re-routed, I *never* have problems. I have a number of such products, done mainly in 1992/93, all making use of the fact that a 3064A is a bitstream-superset of the 3064. I have always tried to avoid hand layout, having seen it in Xilinx seminars, done by sales people who do the same "it's easy -see" demo all day long. I don't do FPGA design full-time, and even a few-months' gap is enough to forget the subtleties of the various tools. Schematic entry is much faster to get in/out of, especially if one has another schematic as a guide. Peter. Return address is invalid to help stop junk mail. E-mail replies to z80@digiserve.com.Article: 7086
Hi, FPGA - mans. I confused I can't to reach Actel www site with URL: http://www.actel.com. Who knows Is it problems of my ISP or Actel changes www site? Alex. ELVIS + Ltd.Article: 7087
> I redid a 8000 gate FPGA built in a 0.6 um process with a 10,000 gate gate array (I > added a few extra functions) in a nearly obsolete two metal 1.0 um process. > The gate array was about 25% the cost... > ... and the gate array NRE plus my time was paid for after selling less > than a 100 units. A Xilinx 4010 cost is about $70, and your ASIC was %25 or $17.50 (which is about the right price, may be even a little high, for a 10k ASIC in 1um). Therefore savings were $5250 with these numbers. At $75/hour for engineering time, that is 70 hours. Say it took you 20 hours for your time (which would be quite a low estimate), leaving $3750 for NRE. Also, most ASIC houses won't make an ASIC without a minimum number P.O., say a few thousand... My experience has shows your NRE to be quite low for a 10k ASIC, unless you made up the low NRE by ordering a larger quantity of chips, therefore including part of the NRE in the chip price, instead of up front. If you could post your actual numbers (actual NRE, minimum number of chips you had to order, and at what price, how many hours it took for you to do this 'conversion') this would make your numbers more 'compelling'. Thanks, Austin Franklin darkroom@ix.netcom.comArticle: 7088
Alexandr Solovkin wrote: > > Hi, FPGA - mans. > I confused I can't to reach Actel www site with > URL: http://www.actel.com > Who knows Is it problems of my ISP or Actel > changes www site? > > Alex. > ELVIS + Ltd. I tried it today and it works. AdamArticle: 7089
Try the Lattice range. They do a free starter kit that will program the 1016 and 2032 parts via the printer port. They can be reprogrammed 10000 times. The only snag is that you'll have to make your own download cable (free circuit diagram on the CD ROM consisting of 1 CMOS buffer). The complexity of the 1016 is 2000 PLD gates and has 32 IO pins. Also the entry is either ABEL or Schematic capture. The CD ROM contains the manuals for the Lattice parts and the Synario system. JohnArticle: 7090
Richard Schwarz wrote: > > George Noten wrote: > > > A.C.Rochat (arjan.rochat@pi.net) wrote: > > : If you are planning to use version 2.2 or earlier, forget it. > > > > : The Foundation package contains software by Xilinx and Aldec. > > > > : The Aldec part (VHDL, Schematic capture, simulation) has a very > > fancy > > : GUI and fancy functionality, but it simply does not work. > > > > : The Aldec software performed so bad that we decided to halt the > > project > > : altogether. > > > > : Now, a jear later i am planning to take the project up again, if > > there > > : is goed software > > : available and Xilinx is willing to give it to mee free. (Yes _FREE_! > > > > : Xilinx owes me one!) > > > > : Positive notes: > > : The software written by Xilinx themselves is OK. > > : The support from the Xilinx distributor here in Holland is realy > > : exelent!! > > > > This reminds me very much of my own experience with Viewlogic > > PROseries. > > The only good part of it was the beta-test version of Speedwave > > simulator. > > The synthesis just did not work. Now I know that PRO-/View- synthesis > > > > tools are not to be trusted. You are telling me that neither is > > Aldec. > > Can anybody recommend something that is good enough and does not cost > > you your life savings? What about the new VHDL synthesis tool from > > MINC? > > > > George. > > I have used the Foundation Tools from XILINX and they indeed do work. Realy? What about the Aldec project manager that changes your project name into something you don't want? - Unable to change it back? Or what about moving a symbol in Aldec schematic capture, so the entire net is messed up and all net nodes are are placed at the same point, so the only thing you can do is delete the net and redraw it? Or wat about using the Aldec simulator that doesn't simulate the circuit as designed, so you spend half a day to find bugs that aren't there? Or what about writing some stuff in VHDL - syntax O.K. but the compiler doesn't swallow it?Article: 7091
fliptron@netcom.com (Philip Freidin) wrote: > The same also applies to trying to reverse > engineer an SRAM FPGA bitstream. To my knowledge, this has only been > done successfully once, by a very motivated company, and the intent was > not to ripoff an end user's design, but rather to create competitive > CAE software. I've never tried it, but I would think it would be fairly easy to break SRAM code. XILINX and guys like that claim that it's impossible, but if you think about it, it should be that hard. For example, if you took some design tools for a XC400X device, and (a) programmed only one interconnect at a time and (b) looked at the resulting bitstream, I think you should be able to break their code. This could be repeated until a total picture of the bitstream results. Furthermore, there's probably pattern to the bit patterns. I would think you should be able to find the pattern in a few days of work. >4) The highest security is with SRAM FPGAs that have a power-down/battery > backed up mode of operation (such as the XC3000L products). With these > devices, the bitstream is loaded into the device during manufacturing, > and a battery maintains the configuration data in the device, even when > the system is turned off. Unless you want to have a big battery, you > need an FPGA that can maintain its data in a power down mode with very > little power. The XC3000L parts can do this as low as 5uA, which is > down at the battery's own leakage current, and with appropriate > batteries, could give an operation life of 5 to 10 years. I don't really care for this from a manufacturing standpoint. Any glitch (caused by a fat probe, etc.) on the power rail would render the product useless, as the FPGA would forget it's program and couldn't be reset in the field. ----------------------------------------------------- Wade D. Peterson | TEL: 612.722.3815 Consultant to Industry | FAX: 612.722.5841 3525 E. 27th St. No. 301 |---------- EMAIL ---------- Minneapolis, MN 55406 | peter299@maroon.tc.umn.edu ---------------- Committed to Quality ---------------Article: 7092
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hi, as part of a space flight instrument, a high speed digitizer is required. here's a brief specification. 1. sample rate >= 1 gigasample/second, 8-bit resolution; > 1.6 Gigasample/second desired. 2. input bandwith >= 250 MHz 3. memory depth >= 32,000 samples; > 64,000 samples desired. 4. 100 MHz clock input, PLL to increase speed as needed 5. 80 Hz rate. 6. power <= 25 watts. 7. prefer mcm packaging 8. design life >= 8 years, 5 years on-orbit. we welcome any ideas that you may have. also, if you have experience in this area, like a good challenge, and would like to be considered for this assignment, please contact me (info at the bottom). one concept we're exploring is to use, for example, the 1 GSample/second SPT ADC and RAMBUS DRAMS. This can give us a huge memory (and cheap redundancy) and is a bonus for the system design. for this, obviously, we would like a high-speed asic to provide the connection between the ADC (500 MHz w/ the 1:2 on-chip demux) and the RDRAMs for acquisition and system logic for readout (which is relatively slow). spt adc and RDRAMS have already passed preliminary radiation tests and are currently undergoing construction analysis. other concepts are being explored and feel free to come with a clean sheet of paper. you may contact me at: Rich Katz NASA/GSFC Code 738 Greenbelt, MD 20771 Tel: (301) 286-9705 Fax: (301) 286-0220 email: rich.katz@gsfc.nasa.govArticle: 7094
Georg Diebel <g_diebel@lis.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> writes: > Hi everybody, Hi too, > Now the Problem: > > I have a VHDL design targeted for a Altera FLEX FPGA (10K50). So far so good. > When I try to simulate these designs (Synopsys VSS), first everything > looks good, but when I try to set a trace (view a waveform), the > simulator gets to work (on what I don't know) and won't stop and > won't react to anything (at least for the 4 hours I had the patience > to wait). What do think about Hardware/Software-Cosimulation. The partitioning your design to components for simulation at all and components for emulation at a prototyping board coupled to a HDL-Simulator is up to you. The sight to the emulator partition is as a HDL entity. But now, you can achive a significant speed up depend on the design. > OK, then I figured that this VHDL design simply was too large for > the *interpreted* VHDL-simulator from Synopsys and hence tried to > analyze the VHDL for the "compiled" mode. This took about 3 hours > (yes, only analyze & compile) before the job ran out of memory and > aborted. Oh, I was running it on a UltraSparc with 600 MB physical > memory and about 1.2 Gig of swap space ... wouldn't know where to > find a bigger machine here at the institute. Our HW/SW-Cosimulation environment supports also the VSS from Synopsys. > Now, what to do? Have a look at http://www.eas.iis.fhg.de/sim/projects/dfg/welcome_de.html > Looking forward to any ideas! Hope this helps. Yours, Thomas ______________________________________________________________________________ | | | Dipl.-Ing. Thomas Berndt Tel: 0351 / 4640-731 | | email: berndt@eas.iis.fhg.de | | URL: http://www.eas.iis.fhg.de/sim/staff/berndt| | FAX: 0351 / 4640-703 | | | | Fraunhofer-Institut fuer Integrierte Schaltungen (IIS) | | EAS Dresden | | Zeunerstr. 38 | | 01069 Dresden | |______________________________________________________________________________|Article: 7095
Arrigo Benedetti <arrigo@vision.caltech.edu> writes: > Dear fellows, > > I'm doing a functional simulation of a 4028EX design that has several > three-state output lines with vss and the new M1 simprim library. > The vhdl entity that I'm simulating has been generated by ngd2vhdl > after design translation. This is the only kind of functional > simulation that I can do with this design, as it contains several > RPM macros from .xnf files. > My impression is that the three-state output buffer is not simulated > well, as the output lines are always defined as X"????" in vss. > I also checked that the GTS net was low giving the "assign '0' gts" > command before running the simulation but this didn't help. > > Has anyone had this problem before ? Yes, I do. At the first gate the input std_logic value 'Z' moves to 'X'. So you can drive the pin with static 'L' or 'H'. In this way, 'Z' moves to 'L' or 'H', but '0' or '1' don't changes. > thanks in advance Hope this helps. Thomas ______________________________________________________________________________ | | | Dipl.-Ing. Thomas Berndt Tel: 0351 / 4640-731 | | email: berndt@eas.iis.fhg.de | | URL: http://www.eas.iis.fhg.de/sim/staff/berndt| | FAX: 0351 / 4640-703 | | | | Fraunhofer-Institut fuer Integrierte Schaltungen (IIS) | | EAS Dresden | | Zeunerstr. 38 | | 01069 Dresden | |______________________________________________________________________________|Article: 7096
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This sounds like "pie in the sky," but the numbers add up, and with
over 40 million people on the NET, it works! TIP: For an even
greater return, post to MORE than 250 newsgroups initially; try for
300-350. When your name drops off a list, simply access another
message from a newsgroup and start the process over again.
Post the new article to at least 250 newsgroups. remember, the more
you post, the more people see, and the more you get. There are at
least 25,000 newsgroups at any one time.
This is a $7.92 investment. It takes about a week or so to start
seeing a return- so be patient. The should flow for about 3
months. At that point, simply add your name to the list and start
over.
I've done this three times and now I can quit my job and start
investing in real estate full time. I assure you this can work.
If you mailed out 500 letters, you could have received even more!
Check the math yourself, but I guarantee it's correct. With this kind
of return, you have got to give it a try! Try it once, and you'll do
it again. Just make sure you send a dollar to each of the addresses on
the list above with a note asking to be added to their mailing list.
Together we will all prosper and we will be able to share our wealth
with those less fortunate than ourselves.
GOOD LUCK!!
GENERAL STEPS ON AUTOMATING THE PROCESS
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If you have Netscape 3.0 do EXACTLY the following:
1) Click on any newsgroup like normal, THEN click on 'TO NEWS', which
is on the far left when you're in the newsgroups page. This will
bring up a box to type a message in.
2) Leave the newsgroup box like it is, CHANGE the subject box to
something flashy, like,..
3) Tab once and you should be ready to type. Now, retype (only once)
THIS whole article WORD FOR WORD, except insert your name at #6, and
remove #1 off the list, plus any other small changes you think you
need to make.
Keep almost all of it the SAME!
4) When you're done typing the WHOLE article, click on FILE in THIS
BOX, RIGHT ABOVE SEND, NOT WHERE IT SAYS NETSCAPE NEWS ON THE FIRST
BOX.
Click on SAVE AS when you're under FILE. Save your article as a text
file to your C: or A: drive. DO NOT SEND OR POST YOUR ARTICLE UNTIL
YOU DO THIS. Once saved, move on to number 5 below.
NOTE: If you don't want to type in the whole article by hand, AND you
know how to use a plain text editor (like Notepad), you can edit the
file ahead of time, then attach it as shown in step 6.
5) If you still have all of your text, send or post to this newsgroup
now by just clicking send, which is right below FILE, and right above
Cc:
6) Here's where you're going to post all 200. OK, click on any
newsgroup then click on 'TO NEWS', again in the top left corner.
Leave the NEWSGROUPS BOX alone again, put a flashy subject title in
the SUBJECT BOX, hit TAB once you're in the body of the message.
Click on ATTACHMENTS, which is below the SUBJECT BOX. You will get
another box to come up. Click on ATTACH FILE, then find YOUR file
that if you did this right, you should see your file name in the
attachments box, and it will be shaded green.
NOTE: If you don't want to type in the whole article and you know how
to use a plain text editor (Notepad), you can edit the file ahead of
time, then attach it.
IF YOU USE I.E. EXPLORER IT'S JUST AS EASY...HOLDING DOWN THE LEFT
MOUSE BUTTON, highlight this article. Then press the "ctrl" key and
the "c" key at the same time to copy this article. Then print this
article for your records, to have the names of those you will be
sending $1 bills to.
2) Go to the news groups and press "post an article". A window will
open. Type in your headline in the subject area and then click in the
large window below. Press "ctrl" and then "v" and the article will be
placed in the window.
If you want to edit the article, do so and then highlight and copy it
again. Now every time you post the article in a new newsgroup all you
have to repeat is "ctrl" and "v" and press post.
3) That's it. Each time you do this, all you have to do is type in a
different newsgroup, so that way it posts to 200 DIFFERENT newsgroups,
or more.
You see? Now you just have 249 to go!! (Don't worry, each one takes
about 30 seconds, once you get used to it.
REMEMBER 250 IS THE MINIMUM. But the more you post the more you
will receive.
AND THAT'S IT!! THEY ARE ONLY STEPS!!!
--------------------------------------------------------------
(this is a later addition for extra ease of posting)
EXTRA TIPS:-
(ONLY) IF YOU ARE CONFIDENT WITH YOUR COMPUTER YOU CAN AUTOMATE YOUR
POSTINGS (and prevent spamming) AS FOLLOWS: (THIS Replaces the
previous section only i.e. 'GENERAL STEPS ON AUTOMATING THE PROCESS')
(using Netscape):
As you are reading this message click on "file" - "save message as",
enter a filename in the 'save as' dialog box, press "enter".
Now open "Notepad" (usually from "start" - "programs" - "accessories")
and open the message ( "file" - "open" ) you just saved. (You will
find it in the same folder you saved it and you may also find it
has a '.html' file extension). Then edit the letter EXACTLY as you
have been directed above. Just make sure you delete the
'system-message'
that appears at the top so that it makes sense when you read it!
Click on "edit" - "select all" (all the
text should now be highlighted) then again "edit" - "copy".
Leave Notepad alone for now and return to the Netscape News program:
Click on "options" - "show all newsgroups".
Now select (subscribe to) whichever groups you think are suitable by
moving down the entire listing and clicking in the appropriate empty
boxes. Once you have finished click "options" - "show subscribed
newsgroups".
Now simply click on the first group you want to post to, to highlight
it. Then choose the group about 10 further on and WHILE HOLDING DOWN
THE SHIFT KEY click on it. Next click on "file" - "new news message".
A message box will appear and after entering the "flashy" subject
line,
position the cursor in the main message area.
Click on "edit" -"paste"; the message will appear.
NOW CHECK IT!!
When you are satisfied everything is correct click "send" and it will
be
sent to all 10 groups. Now repeat as many times as you need- very
simple!
PLEASE NEVER post to many more than 10 with any one message since
the resulting long lines of newsgroup listings at the top of EVERY
message will annoy many AND will vastly reduce the effectiveness of
your posting.
JUST ONE OTHER THING:
Let's remember that there are many people far less fortunate than
ourselves who will never be able to afford a computer and hence
will be unable to join in our enterprise. Therefore please consider
donating a (significant) portion of your earnings from the venture
to charity.
NOTE - "edit" - "copy" is exactly the same as pressing "ctrl" with "c"
"edit" - "paste" is exactly the same as pressing "ctrl" with
"v"
Article: 7097Hi, does anybody knows how I can download designs which are compiled with MAXPLUS2 over the LPT port? Thanks in forward. Thomas ______________________________________________________________________________ | | | Dipl.-Ing. Thomas Berndt Tel: 0351 / 4640-731 | | email: berndt@eas.iis.fhg.de | | URL: http://www.eas.iis.fhg.de/sim/staff/berndt| | FAX: 0351 / 4640-703 | | | | Fraunhofer-Institut fuer Integrierte Schaltungen (IIS) | | EAS Dresden | | Zeunerstr. 38 | | 01069 Dresden | |______________________________________________________________________________|Article: 7098
How about GateField. These are reprogramable devices based in Flash ROM technology. They work just as an FPGA but you can reprogram them over and over. David T. Wang <davewang@wam.umd.edu.delete.after.edu@Glue.umd.edu> wrote in article <5rl7em$nf7$1@hecate.umd.edu>...Article: 7099
A.C.Rochat wrote: > Richard Schwarz wrote: > > > > George Noten wrote: > > > > > A.C.Rochat (arjan.rochat@pi.net) wrote: > > > : If you are planning to use version 2.2 or earlier, forget it. > > > > > > : The Foundation package contains software by Xilinx and Aldec. > > > > > > : The Aldec part (VHDL, Schematic capture, simulation) has a very > > > fancy > > > : GUI and fancy functionality, but it simply does not work. > > > > > > : The Aldec software performed so bad that we decided to halt the > > > project > > > : altogether. > > > > > > : Now, a jear later i am planning to take the project up again, if > > > > there > > > : is goed software > > > : available and Xilinx is willing to give it to mee free. (Yes > _FREE_! > > > > > > : Xilinx owes me one!) > > > > > > : Positive notes: > > > : The software written by Xilinx themselves is OK. > > > : The support from the Xilinx distributor here in Holland is realy > > > > : exelent!! > > > > > > This reminds me very much of my own experience with Viewlogic > > > PROseries. > > > The only good part of it was the beta-test version of Speedwave > > > simulator. > > > The synthesis just did not work. Now I know that PRO-/View- > synthesis > > > > > > tools are not to be trusted. You are telling me that neither is > > > Aldec. > > > Can anybody recommend something that is good enough and does not > cost > > > you your life savings? What about the new VHDL synthesis tool > from > > > MINC? > > > > > > George. > > > > I have used the Foundation Tools from XILINX and they indeed do > work. > > Realy? > What about the Aldec project manager that changes your project name > into > something you don't want? - Unable to change it back? > Or what about moving a symbol in Aldec schematic capture, so the > entire > net is messed up > and all net nodes are are placed at the same point, so the only thing > you can do is delete the net and redraw it? > Or wat about using the Aldec simulator that doesn't simulate the > circuit > as designed, so > you spend half a day to find bugs that aren't there? > Or what about writing some stuff in VHDL - syntax O.K. but the > compiler > doesn't swallow it? I have not seen any of the problems you described above. I have done dozens of projects and never had the software change the project name on me. I typically make more use of the VHDL compiler and have never had the problems you describe between the syntax checker (which most compilers don't even have as a separate feature) and compiler. I am sorry that you have had some difficulties, but there are thousands (including me) who are using this software successfully. I have used Exemplar, Synplicity and several other more expensive VHDL compilers and have not found the XILINX /ALDEC software to be any more or less buggy or problematic than the other more expensive compilers. Please feel free in contacting me or XILINX or ALDEC if you run into any future problems. I wish you success in your future endeavors. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Schwarz, President Associated Professional Systems (APS) EDA and Communications Tools http://www.associatedpro.com richard@associatedpro.com 410.569.5897 fx:410.661.2760
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