Re: gEDA-user: gEDA and PCB ------

[Stephen Meier <smeier@AlchemyResearch.com>]

Well for about $2500.00 you can buy from xilinx their foundation tool 
set which does run on linux as well as windows and solaris.

We actually used Icarus to model the verilog code and then use the 
xilinx tools to turn it into a bit stream.

Steve Meier


Karel Kulhavý wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 07:30:33PM -0700, Stephen Meier wrote:
>  
> > My board is off to the fab house. 15 inches by 8.6 inches some 1050 
> > parts. I will write a script to count pads latter.
> >
> > Xilinx Virtex II pro V30.... 896 pin BGA 1 mm pich vias in pads
> >
> > (4) 100 pin quad flat pack devices.
> >    
> How do you program the Xilinx?
>
>  
> > 8 layer board which really isn't enough.... time to get PCB to have a 
> > reasonable number of layers... yes yes i know it will be a lot of work.
> >
> > Back anotation is missing so I wrote a program that flips the pins in 
> >    
> What is back annotation?
>
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