[sdiy] Xilinx 3E board comments

[mrmike]

According to the Xilinx site, the EDK is US$495 *per year*.  It's an 
annual license, with "archival use" permission after you stop paying. Ouch.
It's possible that the software prevents the creation of new projects 
after the year runs out, but that's not mentioned on the Xilinx license 
agreement.

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Rainer Buchty wrote:

>>If you want to have an embedded softcore uP, that is $500 for the 
>>development software.
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>If you want to have the Xilinx supported embedded softcore µP with easy 
>integration path to a complete SoC using CoreConnect for module 
>connection and µcLinux as an OS that is $500 for the EDK.
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>You're of course free to use any other free core and manually adopt GCC,
>µcLinux, NutOS, port any existing MIDI-related OS, or write your own. In 
>the end (valuing time) probably way more expensive.
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>But does EDK play together with Webpack, or do you need the full-blown 
>ISE for that?
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>>Books to learn either verilog or vhdl....well, those could run about 
>>$100 new...
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>Just go for the "VHDL Cookbook" by Peter J. Ashenden. Free on the web 
>and (IMO) a good start, especially the exhaustive DP32 example.
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>Rainer
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