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

[Karel Kulhavý <clock@twibright.com>]

On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 07:30:48AM -0700, Stephen Meier wrote:
> 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.

Is it possible to convert .xnf into JEDEC for Xilinx using some free software?

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> Steve Meier
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> Karel Kulhavý wrote:
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> >On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 07:30:33PM -0700, Stephen Meier wrote:
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> >>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.
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> >How do you program the Xilinx?
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> >>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 
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> >What is back annotation?
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> >Cl<
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