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  Virtex-II Pro™ ML300 Evaluation Platform - Installation Instructions

The following pages will guide you through the software installation for the Virtex-II™ Pro ML300
Evaluation Platform. To skip the complete installation and immediately try out your ML300, refer to the

ML300 Quick Start

 card.

About the CDs

The Virtex-II Pro ML300 Evaluation Platform includes the following CDs:

 

ISE 6.2i CD – PC, Disk 1 of 2, Design Environment and Documentation (Windows evaluation
version)

 

ISE 6.2i CD – PC, Disk 2 of 2, Device Files (Windows evaluation version)

 

EDK 6.2i CD – Embedded Development Kit

 

Embedded Alliance Partner CDs (evaluation versions)

System Requirements

The Virtex-II Pro ML300 Evaluation Platform CDs have been tested on the following platforms, with
the tools and versions specified.

System Requirements

Operating System

Windows 2000 SP2
Windows XP
Solaris 2.8

Memory

256 MB

Disk Space

3 GB

Tool Requirements

FPGA

ISE 6.2i *

Embedded &
Software

EDK 6.2i **

Simulation

ModelSim SE 5.7x ***

Debug

ChipScope Pro **

*

 - PC evaluation version included

**  - Full version included
*** - Not included

Note: Operation under Solaris 2.8 requires a full version of ISE 6.2i, which is not included.

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Summary of Contents for Virtex-II Pro ML300

Page 1: ...E 6 2i CD PC Disk 2 of 2 Device Files Windows evaluation version EDK 6 2i CD Embedded Development Kit Embedded Alliance Partner CDs evaluation versions System Requirements The Virtex II Pro ML300 Eval...

Page 2: ...ervice Packs and ChipScope Pro Software 5 Step 4 Install ISE 6 Step 5 Install EDK 8 Step 6 Install ChipScope Pro Software 10 Step 7 Set Up Simulation Tools 11 Step 7A Set up SmartModels 11 Step 7B Set...

Page 3: ...nd looking for the field Physical Address For workstation enter the command hostid in a shell Enter your Host ID on the web form and then click the Next button After successfully registering the ML300...

Page 4: ...design experience Register 1 Go to http www xilinx com ml300 2 Click ML300 Install on the left side of the page 3 Follow the on screen instructions for registering for CoreConnect 4 When approved you...

Page 5: ...tion Download these files now Download Files 1 Go to http www xilinx com ml300 2 Click ML300 Install on the left side of the page 3 Follow the on screen instructions for downloading the following A ML...

Page 6: ...screen directions to complete installation Note After installing Disk 1 you will be prompted to insert Disk 2 into your CD Drive Set Environment After installation set the following environment varia...

Page 7: ...follows source ise_install_dir settings csh OR for Bourne shell users source ise_install_dir settings sh Replace ise_install_dir with directory where you have installed ISE Note The setup file modifi...

Page 8: ...Install CD 1 Insert the EDK Installation CD in your PC 2 The installer should automatically pop up Otherwise open Windows Explorer and double click on setup exe on the CD 3 Click INSTALL EDK 4 Follow...

Page 9: ...to run EDK It must be re sourced if you open a new shell Apply Service Pack 1 Unzip the service pack into your XILINX_EDK directory Replace all files when prompted The service pack was downloaded dur...

Page 10: ...ChipScope Pro X x ChipScope Pro Analyzer Where X x is the version of ChipScope Pro installed 2 Check that the release version matches the version you installed ChipScope Pro Analyzer Help About ChipSc...

Page 11: ...over gate level models while at the same time protect the proprietary designs created by semiconductor vendors SmartModels are included in the Xilinx ISE release The following steps describe how to se...

Page 12: ...the line 3 For Verilog designs enable SmartModels by searching for the variable Veriuser and change it to On Windows Veriuser MODEL_TECH libswiftpli dll On Solaris Veriuser MODEL_TECH libswiftpli sl...

Page 13: ...the following environment variables to the MTI ModelSim setup script setenv MODELSIM path_to_modelsim ini_script modelsim ini setenv PATH MTI_path bin PATH You are responsible for changing the parame...

Page 14: ...ripts to be able to run these tools 2 Choose a directory to install the libraries As a default install them under a new mti_se subdirectory under the EDK install directory XILINX_EDK Windows or XILINX...

Page 15: ...run the tools On Solaris source the necessary environment scripts to be able to run these tools 2 Change directories to where you have installed the libraries generated by compxlib If you ran compxlib...

Page 16: ...Evaluation Platform They are located in the ML300 Lounge Install 1 Unzip the reference design into a working directory The reference design was downloaded during Step 3 Download ML300 Reference Design...

Page 17: ...th ML300 PDF located on the ML300 Documentation page You should check the ML300 web pages and ML300 Lounge for the latest in documentation and designs Both will be updated periodically and can be reac...

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