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Article: 152750
Subject: Re: Xilinx EDK: XPS netlist combination error
From: "Finn S. Nielsen" <removethis_finnstadel@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 02:27:46 +0200
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
Den 05-10-2011 16:09, Finn S. Nielsen skrev:
> Hello all,
>
> Does anyone know why I keep getting errors like this:
>
> "
> ERROR:EDK:708 - Can not get list of netlist files for core
> xps_fb_img_xform 1.01.a .
> The pcore has a pre-synthesized netlist specified through BBD and the
> list of parameter combinations listed for the instance in MHS does not
> match any of the combinations in the BBD.
> "
>
> I've enclosed a file showing how the core entry looks like in the MHS
> file, as well as the cores BBD file contents.
>
> Could it be something with directory paths and/or spaces or whatever.
> There are no tab characters in the BBD file.
>
> It's quite annoying.
>
> Thanks all,
>
> Finn S. Nielsen
> Morphologic ApS
> www.morphologic.dk

OK All, here's an explanation:

XPS will read the default parameter values and try and match these 
settings with the combinations in the BBD file. If it doesn't find it it 
issues an error message.
This does however have nothing to do with the parameters in the MHS file 
which it will only check during system build...
So the default parameter combination must exist to avoid the error 
message - which should not really be an error, but rather a warning 
instead.. ( add that to the gazillion other warnings... ;-) )


Happy hacking,

Finn S. Nielsen
Morphologic ApS
www.morphologic.dk

Article: 152751
Subject: Altera FPGA weirdness
From: John Larkin <jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:15:24 -0700
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
Hi,

We have a new board we just designed, and we're trying to fire up the
first one.

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/60806547

It has an Altera EP2AGX45DF29C5N on board; says so right on the label.

When we hook up the JTAG USB Blaster pod and run the Quartus
Programmer program, it insists that the chip is a GX65 so it doesn't
allow us to load a configuration that was compiled for a GX45.

What the heck? Any ideas?

John


Article: 152752
Subject: Re: Altera FPGA weirdness
From: "Martin Riddle" <martin_rid@verizon.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 21:55:24 -0400
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>


"John Larkin" <jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote in 
message news:408s97p0dudngepc626tcgbcdu13qsqlt7@4ax.com...
> Hi,
>
> We have a new board we just designed, and we're trying to fire up the
> first one.
>
> http://www.panoramio.com/photo/60806547
>
> It has an Altera EP2AGX45DF29C5N on board; says so right on the label.
>
> When we hook up the JTAG USB Blaster pod and run the Quartus
> Programmer program, it insists that the chip is a GX65 so it doesn't
> allow us to load a configuration that was compiled for a GX45.
>
> What the heck? Any ideas?
>
> John
>
Missing pull up/down ?  I would suspect some Jtag interference with a 
new device.
Do you have the latest Quartus 10 ?
Or even the latest usb blaster driver?

Cheers
 



Article: 152753
Subject: Re: Altera FPGA weirdness
From: "BobW" <nimby_GIMME_SPAM_@roadrunner.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 21:45:42 -0700
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>

"John Larkin" <jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote in message 
news:408s97p0dudngepc626tcgbcdu13qsqlt7@4ax.com...
> Hi,
>
> We have a new board we just designed, and we're trying to fire up the
> first one.
>
> http://www.panoramio.com/photo/60806547
>
> It has an Altera EP2AGX45DF29C5N on board; says so right on the label.
>
> When we hook up the JTAG USB Blaster pod and run the Quartus
> Programmer program, it insists that the chip is a GX65 so it doesn't
> allow us to load a configuration that was compiled for a GX45.
>
> What the heck? Any ideas?
>
> John
>

Do you have TCK daisy chained with other devices? It's possible that you 
have a signal integrity problem on it. This is a fast-edge clock like any 
other and needs to be treated as such.

Can you tell if the other bits in the stream are correct? If you can read 
them, it would be good to compare them to the BSDL file to see if it's a bit 
error or if the device is really providing the unexpected value. You can get 
the BSDL file on the Altera website.

Bob
-- 
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Article: 152754
Subject: Re: Altera FPGA weirdness
From: "scrts" <hidden@email.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 08:29:13 +0300
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
> Do you have the latest Quartus 10 ?

The latest one is 11.0sp1, update Your software if You didn't do this 
already.



Article: 152755
Subject: Re: Altera FPGA weirdness
From: Kim Enkovaara <kim.enkovaara@iki.fi>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:06:04 +0300
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
On 19.10.2011 4:15, John Larkin wrote:
> It has an Altera EP2AGX45DF29C5N on board; says so right on the label.
>
> When we hook up the JTAG USB Blaster pod and run the Quartus
> Programmer program, it insists that the chip is a GX65 so it doesn't
> allow us to load a configuration that was compiled for a GX45.

Have you checked these few signals mentioned in the manual. I
had this problem once in the past.

"If the device is in reset state, when the nCONFIG or nSTATUS signal is 
low, the device IDCODE might not be read correctly. To read the device 
IDCODE correctly, you must issue the IDCODE JTAG instruction only when 
the nSTATUS signal is high."

--Kim

Article: 152756
Subject: Re: Altera FPGA weirdness
From: John Larkin <jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:15:59 -0700
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:06:04 +0300, Kim Enkovaara
<kim.enkovaara@iki.fi> wrote:

>On 19.10.2011 4:15, John Larkin wrote:
>> It has an Altera EP2AGX45DF29C5N on board; says so right on the label.
>>
>> When we hook up the JTAG USB Blaster pod and run the Quartus
>> Programmer program, it insists that the chip is a GX65 so it doesn't
>> allow us to load a configuration that was compiled for a GX45.
>
>Have you checked these few signals mentioned in the manual. I
>had this problem once in the past.
>
>"If the device is in reset state, when the nCONFIG or nSTATUS signal is 
>low, the device IDCODE might not be read correctly. To read the device 
>IDCODE correctly, you must issue the IDCODE JTAG instruction only when 
>the nSTATUS signal is high."
>
>--Kim

Kim,

When you posted that, my reaction was "no, nobody could make the jtag
handshake that stupid"... but they did! 

We wrote a stub program for our ARM processor to just pull up nCONFIG,
and now the chip id's itself as a GX45.

Thanks!

If you're ever in San Francisco, expect free beer.

John



Article: 152757
Subject: USB hangs on the Xilinx USB II Cable
From: General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com>
Date: 19 Oct 2011 17:47:46 GMT
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
The Xilinx USB II cable hangs on a regular basis. I've found that pulling 
the USB connector out and putting it back in isn't sufficient, the only 
way that I can get Chipscope to see it again is to power cycle the 
machine. I'm running SL6.1 (RHEL 6.1). The udev rules are,

# version 0003
ATTR{idVendor}=="03fd", ATTR{idProduct}=="0008", MODE="666"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ACTION=="add", ATTR{idVendor}=="03fd", ATTR{idProduct}=="0007", RUN+="/sbin/fxload -v -t fx2 -I /usr/share/xusbdfwu.hex -D $tempnode"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ACTION=="add", ATTR{idVendor}=="03fd", ATTR{idProduct}=="0009", RUN+="/sbin/fxload -v -t fx2 -I /usr/share/xusb_xup.hex -D $tempnode"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ACTION=="add", ATTR{idVendor}=="03fd", ATTR{idProduct}=="000d", RUN+="/sbin/fxload -v -t fx2 -I /usr/share/xusb_emb.hex -D $tempnode"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ACTION=="add", ATTR{idVendor}=="03fd", ATTR{idProduct}=="000f", RUN+="/sbin/fxload -v -t fx2 -I /usr/share/xusb_xlp.hex -D $tempnode"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ACTION=="add", ATTR{idVendor}=="03fd", ATTR{idProduct}=="0013", RUN+="/sbin/fxload -v -t fx2 -I /usr/share/xusb_xp2.hex -D $tempnode"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ACTION=="add", ATTR{idVendor}=="03fd", ATTR{idProduct}=="0015", RUN+="/sbin/fxload -v -t fx2 -I /usr/share/xusb_xse.hex -D $tempnode"

Is there some change to the udev rules or to setup_pcusb that will fix this?

Article: 152758
Subject: Re: Altera FPGA weirdness
From: "BobW" <nimby_GIMME_SPAM_@roadrunner.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:07:28 -0700
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>

"John Larkin" <jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote in message 
news:331u9712mmv9bmoe32nvhe388s68h746kc@4ax.com...
> On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:06:04 +0300, Kim Enkovaara
> <kim.enkovaara@iki.fi> wrote:
>
>>On 19.10.2011 4:15, John Larkin wrote:
>>> It has an Altera EP2AGX45DF29C5N on board; says so right on the label.
>>>
>>> When we hook up the JTAG USB Blaster pod and run the Quartus
>>> Programmer program, it insists that the chip is a GX65 so it doesn't
>>> allow us to load a configuration that was compiled for a GX45.
>>
>>Have you checked these few signals mentioned in the manual. I
>>had this problem once in the past.
>>
>>"If the device is in reset state, when the nCONFIG or nSTATUS signal is
>>low, the device IDCODE might not be read correctly. To read the device
>>IDCODE correctly, you must issue the IDCODE JTAG instruction only when
>>the nSTATUS signal is high."
>>
>>--Kim
>
> Kim,
>
> When you posted that, my reaction was "no, nobody could make the jtag
> handshake that stupid"... but they did!
>
> We wrote a stub program for our ARM processor to just pull up nCONFIG,
> and now the chip id's itself as a GX45.
>
> Thanks!
>
> If you're ever in San Francisco, expect free beer.
>
> John
>

Me too! I'm doing a Stratix V design now. I already have pullups on nConfig 
and nStatus, but it's great to know about this...ahhh...feature.

Thanks, Kim!

Bob
-- 
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Article: 152759
Subject: Re: Altera FPGA weirdness
From: nico@puntnl.niks (Nico Coesel)
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:49:30 GMT
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
John Larkin <jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:

>On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:06:04 +0300, Kim Enkovaara
><kim.enkovaara@iki.fi> wrote:
>
>>On 19.10.2011 4:15, John Larkin wrote:
>>> It has an Altera EP2AGX45DF29C5N on board; says so right on the label.
>>>
>>> When we hook up the JTAG USB Blaster pod and run the Quartus
>>> Programmer program, it insists that the chip is a GX65 so it doesn't
>>> allow us to load a configuration that was compiled for a GX45.
>>
>>Have you checked these few signals mentioned in the manual. I
>>had this problem once in the past.
>>
>>"If the device is in reset state, when the nCONFIG or nSTATUS signal is 
>>low, the device IDCODE might not be read correctly. To read the device 
>>IDCODE correctly, you must issue the IDCODE JTAG instruction only when 
>>the nSTATUS signal is high."
>>
>>--Kim
>
>Kim,
>
>When you posted that, my reaction was "no, nobody could make the jtag
>handshake that stupid"... but they did! 

Isn't it possible to load the FPGA using an SPI like interface? I
avoid using JTAG whenever I can. A JTAG interface is not something
that is required for a device to function properly so it gets very
little attention to get it right.

-- 
Failure does not prove something is impossible, failure simply
indicates you are not using the right tools...
nico@nctdevpuntnl (punt=.)
--------------------------------------------------------------

Article: 152760
Subject: Re: USB hangs on the Xilinx USB II Cable
From: Bik <bik@wp.pl>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:47:43 +0200
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
W dniu 2011-10-19 19:47, General Schvantzkoph pisze:
> The Xilinx USB II cable hangs on a regular basis. I've found that pulling
> the USB connector out and putting it back in isn't sufficient, the only
> way that I can get Chipscope to see it again is to power cycle the
> machine. I'm running SL6.1 (RHEL 6.1). The udev rules are,
>
> # version 0003
> ATTR{idVendor}=="03fd", ATTR{idProduct}=="0008", MODE="666"
> SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ACTION=="add", ATTR{idVendor}=="03fd", ATTR{idProduct}=="0007", RUN+="/sbin/fxload -v -t fx2 -I /usr/share/xusbdfwu.hex -D $tempnode"
> SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ACTION=="add", ATTR{idVendor}=="03fd", ATTR{idProduct}=="0009", RUN+="/sbin/fxload -v -t fx2 -I /usr/share/xusb_xup.hex -D $tempnode"
> SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ACTION=="add", ATTR{idVendor}=="03fd", ATTR{idProduct}=="000d", RUN+="/sbin/fxload -v -t fx2 -I /usr/share/xusb_emb.hex -D $tempnode"
> SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ACTION=="add", ATTR{idVendor}=="03fd", ATTR{idProduct}=="000f", RUN+="/sbin/fxload -v -t fx2 -I /usr/share/xusb_xlp.hex -D $tempnode"
> SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ACTION=="add", ATTR{idVendor}=="03fd", ATTR{idProduct}=="0013", RUN+="/sbin/fxload -v -t fx2 -I /usr/share/xusb_xp2.hex -D $tempnode"
> SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ACTION=="add", ATTR{idVendor}=="03fd", ATTR{idProduct}=="0015", RUN+="/sbin/fxload -v -t fx2 -I /usr/share/xusb_xse.hex -D $tempnode"
>
> Is there some change to the udev rules or to setup_pcusb that will fix this?
For Gentoo I must restart udev and cleancablelock:
# udevadm trigger --attr-match=dev
# impact -batch
  >cleancablelock
  >exit


Article: 152761
Subject: Re: Altera FPGA weirdness
From: John Larkin <jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:16:13 -0700
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:49:30 GMT, nico@puntnl.niks (Nico Coesel)
wrote:

>John Larkin <jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:06:04 +0300, Kim Enkovaara
>><kim.enkovaara@iki.fi> wrote:
>>
>>>On 19.10.2011 4:15, John Larkin wrote:
>>>> It has an Altera EP2AGX45DF29C5N on board; says so right on the label.
>>>>
>>>> When we hook up the JTAG USB Blaster pod and run the Quartus
>>>> Programmer program, it insists that the chip is a GX65 so it doesn't
>>>> allow us to load a configuration that was compiled for a GX45.
>>>
>>>Have you checked these few signals mentioned in the manual. I
>>>had this problem once in the past.
>>>
>>>"If the device is in reset state, when the nCONFIG or nSTATUS signal is 
>>>low, the device IDCODE might not be read correctly. To read the device 
>>>IDCODE correctly, you must issue the IDCODE JTAG instruction only when 
>>>the nSTATUS signal is high."
>>>
>>>--Kim
>>
>>Kim,
>>
>>When you posted that, my reaction was "no, nobody could make the jtag
>>handshake that stupid"... but they did! 
>
>Isn't it possible to load the FPGA using an SPI like interface? I
>avoid using JTAG whenever I can. A JTAG interface is not something
>that is required for a device to function properly so it gets very
>little attention to get it right.

The ARM processor will load the FPGA through its SPI port in real
life, but we're using JTAG to test the PCI Express interface parts
first, because it's quick and easy. When it works.

The production system has the ARM boot its code off a serial flash
chip. Then it reads more of that flash chip and configures the FPGA.
We'll probably compress the config data, because it's something insane
like 30 megabits, mostly zeroes.

John



Article: 152762
Subject: Re: USB hangs on the Xilinx USB II Cable
From: General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com>
Date: 19 Oct 2011 20:55:23 GMT
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:47:43 +0200, Bik wrote:

> W dniu 2011-10-19 19:47, General Schvantzkoph pisze:
>> The Xilinx USB II cable hangs on a regular basis. I've found that
>> pulling the USB connector out and putting it back in isn't sufficient,
>> the only way that I can get Chipscope to see it again is to power cycle
>> the machine. I'm running SL6.1 (RHEL 6.1). The udev rules are,
>>
>> # version 0003
>> ATTR{idVendor}=="03fd", ATTR{idProduct}=="0008", MODE="666"
>> SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ACTION=="add", ATTR{idVendor}=="03fd",
>> ATTR{idProduct}=="0007", RUN+="/sbin/fxload -v -t fx2 -I
>> /usr/share/xusbdfwu.hex -D $tempnode" SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ACTION=="add",
>> ATTR{idVendor}=="03fd", ATTR{idProduct}=="0009", RUN+="/sbin/fxload -v
>> -t fx2 -I /usr/share/xusb_xup.hex -D $tempnode" SUBSYSTEM=="usb",
>> ACTION=="add", ATTR{idVendor}=="03fd", ATTR{idProduct}=="000d",
>> RUN+="/sbin/fxload -v -t fx2 -I /usr/share/xusb_emb.hex -D $tempnode"
>> SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ACTION=="add", ATTR{idVendor}=="03fd",
>> ATTR{idProduct}=="000f", RUN+="/sbin/fxload -v -t fx2 -I
>> /usr/share/xusb_xlp.hex -D $tempnode" SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ACTION=="add",
>> ATTR{idVendor}=="03fd", ATTR{idProduct}=="0013", RUN+="/sbin/fxload -v
>> -t fx2 -I /usr/share/xusb_xp2.hex -D $tempnode" SUBSYSTEM=="usb",
>> ACTION=="add", ATTR{idVendor}=="03fd", ATTR{idProduct}=="0015",
>> RUN+="/sbin/fxload -v -t fx2 -I /usr/share/xusb_xse.hex -D $tempnode"
>>
>> Is there some change to the udev rules or to setup_pcusb that will fix
>> this?
> For Gentoo I must restart udev and cleancablelock: # udevadm trigger
> --attr-match=dev
> # impact -batch
>   >cleancablelock
>   >exit

That sounds like what I want. Where do I get dev from? Here is my lsusb 
output, which is the field that I should use for dev?

Bus 001 Device 003: ID 03fd:0008 Xilinx, Inc. 



Article: 152763
Subject: Re: Altera FPGA weirdness
From: "TTman" <pcw1.cad@ntlworld.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:57:00 +0100
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
>
> The ARM processor will load the FPGA through its SPI port in real
> life, but we're using JTAG to test the PCI Express interface parts
> first, because it's quick and easy. When it works.
>
> The production system has the ARM boot its code off a serial flash
> chip. Then it reads more of that flash chip and configures the FPGA.
> We'll probably compress the config data, because it's something insane
> like 30 megabits, mostly zeroes.
>
> John
>
>

I thought Quartus will compress for you ??? Do you need all 30 Mbits ??? 



Article: 152764
Subject: Re: Altera FPGA weirdness
From: John Larkin <jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:26:02 -0700
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:57:00 +0100, "TTman" <pcw1.cad@ntlworld.com>
wrote:

>>
>> The ARM processor will load the FPGA through its SPI port in real
>> life, but we're using JTAG to test the PCI Express interface parts
>> first, because it's quick and easy. When it works.
>>
>> The production system has the ARM boot its code off a serial flash
>> chip. Then it reads more of that flash chip and configures the FPGA.
>> We'll probably compress the config data, because it's something insane
>> like 30 megabits, mostly zeroes.
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>
>I thought Quartus will compress for you ??? Do you need all 30 Mbits ??? 
>

You don't really get a choice. Every config bit and every RAM bit is
in the config file. The vendor's compression usually doesn't help a
lot. Since most of the config data is 0's, simple bytewise RLL
compression on zeroes helps a lot, 2:1 to as much as 5:1.

John


Article: 152765
Subject: Peter Alfke has passed away
From: Suhaib Fahmy <suhaib@fahmy.net>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 22:33:20 -0700 (PDT)
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
Those who've been on this newsgroup for any period of time will
remember Peter Alfke, the Xilinx legend, and his infectious
enthusiasm. He was a great help as I got into FPGA design 8 years ago,
as I embarked on the academic track. I met him at a number of
conferences, and he was just as wonderful in person. He gave some real
life to the newsgroup and has been sorely missed since he stopped
posting.

A tweet that carried the news: https://twitter.com/xilinxtraining/status/126857481812066304

Our condolences to his family and friends; he will be sorely missed.

Suhaib.

Article: 152766
Subject: Re: Peter Alfke has passed away
From: HT-Lab <hans64@htminuslab.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:00:15 +0100
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
On 20/10/2011 06:33, Suhaib Fahmy wrote:
> Those who've been on this newsgroup for any period of time will
> remember Peter Alfke, the Xilinx legend, and his infectious
> enthusiasm. He was a great help as I got into FPGA design 8 years ago,
> as I embarked on the academic track. I met him at a number of
> conferences, and he was just as wonderful in person. He gave some real
> life to the newsgroup and has been sorely missed since he stopped
> posting.
>
> A tweet that carried the news: https://twitter.com/xilinxtraining/status/126857481812066304
>
> Our condolences to his family and friends; he will be sorely missed.
>
> Suhaib.

Indeed quite sad as he was a real guru with a great personality.

http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4183358/Pull-up-a-chair-Peter-Alfke

Hans
www.ht-lab.com


Article: 152767
Subject: Re: Peter Alfke has passed away
From: "RCIngham" <robert.ingham@n_o_s_p_a_m.n_o_s_p_a_m.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 03:27:09 -0500
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
Sad news.
	   
					
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Article: 152768
Subject: Re: Peter Alfke has passed away
From: Syd Rumpo <usenet@neonica.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 12:21:15 +0100
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
On 20/10/2011 06:33, Suhaib Fahmy wrote:
> Those who've been on this newsgroup for any period of time will
> remember Peter Alfke, the Xilinx legend, and his infectious
> enthusiasm. He was a great help as I got into FPGA design 8 years ago,
> as I embarked on the academic track. I met him at a number of
> conferences, and he was just as wonderful in person. He gave some real
> life to the newsgroup and has been sorely missed since he stopped
> posting.
>
> A tweet that carried the news: https://twitter.com/xilinxtraining/status/126857481812066304
>
> Our condolences to his family and friends; he will be sorely missed.
>
> Suhaib.

He helped me more than once, and was the main reason for my choosing 
Xilinx. RIP.

-- 
Syd

Article: 152769
Subject: Re: Peter Alfke has passed away
From: nico@puntnl.niks (Nico Coesel)
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:40:40 GMT
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Suhaib Fahmy <suhaib@fahmy.net> wrote:

>
>A tweet that carried the news: https://twitter.com/xilinxtraining/status/126857481812066304

So far no official announcement on the Xilinx page. Sure this isn't
some sick joke?

-- 
Failure does not prove something is impossible, failure simply
indicates you are not using the right tools...
nico@nctdevpuntnl (punt=.)
--------------------------------------------------------------

Article: 152770
Subject: Re: Peter Alfke has passed away
From: Ed McGettigan <ed.mcgettigan@xilinx.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 12:54:12 -0700 (PDT)
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On Oct 20, 9:40=A0am, n...@puntnl.niks (Nico Coesel) wrote:
> Suhaib Fahmy <suh...@fahmy.net> wrote:
>
> >A tweet that carried the news:https://twitter.com/xilinxtraining/status/=
126857481812066304
>
> So far no official announcement on the Xilinx page. Sure this isn't
> some sick joke?
>
> --
> Failure does not prove something is impossible, failure simply
> indicates you are not using the right tools...
> nico@nctdevpuntnl (punt=3D.)
> --------------------------------------------------------------

Unfortunately this is not a joke.

Ed McGettigan
--
Xilinx Inc.

Article: 152771
Subject: Re: Peter Alfke has passed away
From: nico@puntnl.niks (Nico Coesel)
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 21:16:21 GMT
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Ed McGettigan <ed.mcgettigan@xilinx.com> wrote:

>On Oct 20, 9:40=A0am, n...@puntnl.niks (Nico Coesel) wrote:
>> Suhaib Fahmy <suh...@fahmy.net> wrote:
>>
>> >A tweet that carried the news:https://twitter.com/xilinxtraining/status/=
>126857481812066304
>>
>> So far no official announcement on the Xilinx page. Sure this isn't
>> some sick joke?
>
>Unfortunately this is not a joke.
>
>Ed McGettigan
>Xilinx Inc.


Then it is very sad news. My condolences.

-- 
Failure does not prove something is impossible, failure simply
indicates you are not using the right tools...
nico@nctdevpuntnl (punt=.)
--------------------------------------------------------------

Article: 152772
Subject: Re: Peter Alfke has passed away
From: Suhaib Fahmy <suhaib@fahmy.net>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 20:11:00 -0700 (PDT)
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> So far no official announcement on the Xilinx page. Sure this isn't
> some sick joke?

Xilinx's official twitter account has retweeted a number of related
tweets. So it seems not=85

Article: 152773
Subject: FPGA development
From: thunder <livid16@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 03:41:25 -0700 (PDT)
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Hello

I am very new to FPGA's (background being ASIC design).

I would like to map some designs onto FPGA's as a starting point. I
want to experiment with the complete FPGA flow, starting with writing
the design in VHDL/Verilog and getting it programmed onto a target
FPGA (it doesn't matter which FPGA for the time being).

I was looking for free/cheap FPGA developement s/w what i could run on
my home PC and better understand the process of mapping a design to an
FPGA target.


Any pointers for SW or developement tools would be appreciated.

Thanks

JO

Article: 152774
Subject: Re: Peter Alfke has passed away
From: F M <fmont67@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 03:47:07 -0700 (PDT)
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> So far no official announcement on the Xilinx page. Sure this isn't
> some sick joke?
>

It seems he had important health  problems since long time. I found
this on the web
  http://stanfordhospital.org/newsEvents/newsReleases/2011/provenge-release.html
There is no a sure reference which certifies that the "Peter Alfke" on
the article is really him (at least reading the article at first
glance) but looking to the photo and by comparing with
  http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4183358/Pull-up-a-chair-Peter-Alfke
it seems to be really him.

I read many of his articles and note. We will miss him and  his
passion for job.

Fabio



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