Does High Volume Starter Kit Bundle Xilinx Development Board include EDK ?

[kender]

Colleagues,

Do you know if this Xilinx kit bundle **broken link removed** includes the Embedded Development kit? The bundle does include the Spartan-3 starter kit, and Xilinx says that

"Evaluation Software: Xilinx ISE & EDK CDs"

is included. Does anyone know if the IP for the PicoBlaze is included and how long does the evaluation license work?

Thanks,
Nick

 

[samcheetah]

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are you sure you have given the right link?

the link you gave points to the "High Volume Starter Kit Bundle(HW-SPAR3-CPLD-DK) Xilinx Development Board" which is actually a Spartan 3 starter kit plus the CPLD design kit. it says nothing about the EDK.

i highly doubt that the EDK would be available with a 99 dollars kit.

 

[kender]

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The EDK is mentioned in the description of the Spartan3 kit, which is (as it was mentioned) a part of a bundle. **broken link removed** It's in "This product includes" section.

 

[echo47]

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PicoBlaze is a free download:
https://www.xilinx.com/products/design_resources/proc_central/grouping/picoblaze.htm

Oh wow, the "High Volume Starter Kit Bundle" is new, and it replaces the $99 Spartan-3 Starter Kit. For the same price, you now get a CPLD kit too.

The package includes the EDK 7.1i CDROM, but a license will cost you $495 US. I don't know if an EDK evaluation license exists or how long it runs. There is no "Try" button on this page:
https://www.xilinx.com/products/des...tool/index.htm?url=/ise/embedded/register.htm

 

[kender]

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PicoBlaze is a free download:
h**p://www.xilinx.com/products/design_resources/proc_central/grouping/picoblaze.htm

Yes, it is, but there is no good compiler/debugger for it, is there?
And if anyone is efficient writing assembly, I'm not that person.

 

[echo47]

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I doubt you'll ever see a PicoBlaze compiler. PicoBlaze code is limited to only 1K words, and it's very hardware intensive and customizeable, not compiler friendly.

Here's a nice free assembler/debugger:
**broken link removed**

 

[angelote]

hw-spar3-cpld-dk

kender: do you mean PicoBlaze or MicroBlaze?

PicoBlaze is a very simple processor, basically used to built complex state machines.

MicroBlaze is a customizable 32 bits processor, able to stand for linux and RTOS.

PicoBlaze is free, and I think that you will not find any C compiler. MicroBlaze is included in EDK.

 

[kender]

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kender: do you mean PicoBlaze or MicroBlaze?

Initially I meant the 32bit MicroBlaze. I was hope there is a way to get the EDK for $100 together with a kit. We'll see what Xilinx technical support says on Monday...

 

[mami_hacky]

cpld xilinx edk

As you can see in the picoblaze forum, There is now a simple C compiler available for it and well ... 1024 instructions is a lot. We can do many different tasks with it. Finally 1024 should be extendable easily.
So, picoblaze is really a good tool in my idea when you do not have enough time for a complex microprocessor such as microblaze.
Another important point is available bugs in EDK. Once they killem me in a project. ( The initial release of EDK 7.1)

 

[echo47]

rtos picoblaze

I stand corrected!

The PicoBlaze forum discussion:
**broken link removed**

The compiler:
**broken link removed**

Yes, EDK is chock-full-of-bugs. Also huge and slow.

 

[jabarok]

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I use to used ise & edk starter kit

can use about 60 day for evaluate kit

 

[kender]

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I use to used ise & edk starter kit

can use about 60 day for evaluate kit

I got the same response from the Xilinx tech support. Luckily I have many PCs at my disposal.

 

[BuBEE]

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I thinks you must buy edk software.