Re: Install ISE on a Mac

w1jp · ‎07-01-2011

Ironically, while we slipped off the top twenty IDMs (largely due to the divestiture of consumer electronics) in 2009, we are the foundry for >5 of the world's top 20. We also did > $2B in OEM semiconductor business (about the same as Xilinx's entire 2011 revenue). While we are not an FPGA IDM (we are processors, asics, etc.), and thus not a competitor, the majority of our tools are Eclipse based. I thus feel in a position to comment/judge here. As I said earlier, someone in Xilinx will ultimately conclude that their business is making us successful with their products so they sell more and get into new markets, not selling tools to a restricted and shrinking software market. While I whole-heartedly believe in charging for IP, the tools' IDEs have nothing to do with it. It resides in the synthesis etc. Anyway, Xilinx stop wasting your time on proprietary tool installations and leverage Eclipse, Netbeans, or even Cloud9. Take those investment dollars and make us more productive getting your products to market. $0.02, Jon These are my personal comments and not necessarily the opinions of my employer.

bassman59 · ‎02-25-2008

w1jp wrote:
, the tools' IDEs have nothing to do with it. It resides in the synthesis etc. Anyway, Xilinx stop wasting your time on proprietary tool installations and leverage Eclipse, Netbeans, or even Cloud9.

I don't see how Eclipse could be used for FPGA tools. I don't need an editor, I have emacs.

Really, all we need is a reasonable mechanism to set the various compiler/build options and then using makefiles, the proper command-line tools can be called. And there's no reason why those tools can't be built for any platform.

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bassman59 · ‎02-25-2008

sjg69 wrote:

I'd love a native OSX port too, and as a cautionary warning, don't use Parallells to install your VM on OSX. I can't program my SP605 board under parallells. I can run everything else I've tried, and I can see the Xilinx USB device, and it is connected to the virtual machine, but I can't connect to the JTAG cable in xmd. I've since read that it works in VMware...

Indeed it does work with VMWare Fusion.

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agibson@eng.uts.edu.au · ‎04-09-2012

microchip just started supporting mac with their latest tools

http://www.microchip.com/pagehandler/en-us/family/mplabx/

http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/mplab/X/index.html

u848237 · ‎07-19-2012

The Retina screens on the latest Macs seem compelling reason enough to support that OS, for something like ISE.

bsv109 · ‎08-06-2012

Interesting that no one has mentioned Mathworks and MATLAB / Simulink which fully supports OSX (with a few minor exceptions). Integration with Sysgen would very nice natively instead of on a VM.

patrickyip · ‎08-06-2012

i have got a reply on webcase that Mac OS X like Lion is not supported in Xilinx ISE any versions.

Xilinx seems that they dont know that the world is changing. More users are using Mac machines.

Besides, many application notes are still using Win XP. There is still no plan or support on PC driver for Win 7 (for xapp859 and xapp1052).

jvk · ‎08-21-2012

Hey, I was just wondering what I would need to do I wanted System Generator. Would I specifically need to install the windows version of MATLAB/Simulink to be able to use sysgen?

koates · ‎08-19-2012

Just adding another "I use OS X and I Xilinx too"

I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 in a Virtual Box (surprised no-one else is using this, it's free), in 10.7.4 Lion, with a ZC702 Board, on a Macbook Pro.

Had no problems with using the Digilent USB JTAG cable, or CP2103 usb/serial adapter within the VM. Note though, the Digilent device doesn't appear until the board is on.

With Virtual Box (probably VMware and Parallels too) automatically 'send' the USB devices to the VM when they appear, useful if you're power cycling a lot, so the JTAG devices doesn't get 'stuck' in the Host OS.

I actually prefer to run in the VM, as I can snapshot the system before doing anything crazy, or when I reach milestones.

Theoretically (haven't tried this) I can also run the same VM whether I'm booted to Window or OS X.

bwalker000 · ‎09-07-2012

I'm a mac guy and I wish the tools were native. I don't generally mind working in a linux virtualbox guest under my mac os host, however, every time the moon changes phases the **bleep** USB platform ii programmer stops working. The driver disappears, or some change to virtualbox breaks it. That is in my Windows 7 virtual machine as well. That is my pain.