This website contains information regarding the labs of the course
VLSI Programming. For general course information, see
the official course
website.
Contents:
News
Preparation
Before coming to the labs, make sure you have read the
preparation document listed below, and installed all relevant
software listed in it.
Reporting guidelines
For assignments 3, 4, and 5 below you have to hand in a report via PEACH.
Here are some guidelines for reporting.
Assignments
Assignment 1 (April 28 7+8, May 12 7+8 )
Assignment 2 (May 12 7+8, 19 7+8, 26)
Assignment 3 (May 26, June 1, 2 | Report deadline: June 9)
Assignment 4 (June 2, 8, 9 | Report deadline: June 16)
Assignment 5 (June 9, June 15, 16 | Report deadline: June 22)
Support
For help with the practical assignments, you can send an
e-mail to h.l.salunkhe[at]tue[dot]nl or a.lele[at]tue[dot]nl with your question.
For problems with the tools, please include the (relevant) output of the compiler.
Hints for using the tools.
Please mail any suggestions for hints to h.l.salunkhe[at]tue[dot]nl or a.lele[at]tue[dot]nl. I'll include your tip here for others to use.
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Running ISE 14.7 under Windows 8
Under the assumption that you are using ISE 14.7 and have installed it to the default location proceed as follows:
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Open the following directory: C:\Xilinx\14.7\ISE_DS\ISE\lib\nt64
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Find and rename libPortability.dll to libPortability.dll.orig
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Make a copy of libPortabilityNOSH.dll (copy and paste it to the same directory) and rename it libPortability.dll
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Copy libPortabilityNOSH.dll again, but this time navigate to C:\Xilinx\14.7\ISE_DS\common\lib\nt64 and paste it there
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In C:\Xilinx\14.7\ISE_DS\common\lib\nt64 Find and rename libPortability.dll to libPortability.dll.orig
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Rename libPortabilityNOSH.dll to libPortability.dll