More than a year ago I faced a strange issue with a hardware design on a Virtex-5 FPGA. Basically an addition of multiple values had no effect at all. Out of curiosity I reproduced this issue and now here are the details about what seems to be a serious bug in the XST synthesis tool for Virtex-5 FPGAs bundled with ISE 14.7.
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XPS on RHEL 7 / CentOS 7
Officially the ISE suite is not supported to run on RHEL / CentOS 7. But since time moves on and Vivado nowadays is supported on those systems you may be tempted to run the ISE tools on this system as well.
If you face the issue that XPS just shows a blank window and even XPS project files are opened as text files, the following will probably solve this issue:
yum install mesa-libGLU
By now this was also mentioned on a Xilinx forum thread but I thought I’d post it anyway.
Setting up Xilinx development tools on Debian
Debian is not a supported system for running the Xilinx developments tools. That does not mean you cannot use them on Debian. Here is a quick overview over the necessary steps to get them running on Jessie.
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