New to FPGA's, please help

[njwang]

Hello Everyone, I am not too far removed from college and have just begun a
project to evaluate ultrasound devices on the information receiving side
using a FPGA.

I have very limited verilog programming experience. We most likely will be
using VHDL in the future for optimization. Anyways we are using the
Spartan3A board

http://www.xilinx.com/products/devkits/HW-SPAR3AN-SK-UNI-G.htm

Could I get some references to learn how to use the ISE program and help
with programming in Verilog? The ISE program is espeically intimidating.
Thanks for helping me cut down the learning curve.

[Symon]

In ISE click
help -> tutorials

If you think ISE daunting, you've chosen the wrong career. ;-) It is
irritating though!
Good luck, Syms.

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[Jan Bruns]

"njwang":

> Could I get some references to learn how to use the ISE program and help
> with programming in Verilog? The ISE program is espeically intimidating.
> Thanks for helping me cut down the learning curve.

On the command line:

xst -ifn compile.script
ngdbuild prevresult´
map prevresult
par prevresult newresult
bitgen newresult
impact

The compile.script could look like

run
-ifn someverilog.v
-top mainmodule
-ifmt verilog
-opt_mode SPEED
-opt_level 1
-p xc3s1000
-ofn ürevresult.ngc

Gruss

Jan Bruns

[Bob Smith]

njwang wrote:
> Could I get some references to learn how to use the ISE program and help
> with programming in Verilog? The ISE program is espeically intimidating.
> Thanks for helping me cut down the learning curve.

My advice is to use Makefiles and the command line.

Take a look at the CmdLineFPGA.pdf on the web site
http://www.demandperipherals.com. It is under products
and Baseboard-4.

Bob Smith