had a lot of problems with the altera software licence
from a hobbiests point of view thay claim its free
and you register it works for a week then they email you to tell
you that your registration info does not relate to a valid company
or education establisment , so you email them asking why and
telling them that it is beeing used for hobby use , they reply
saying its ok , only to get the same email 2 days later saying its
not
after 3 weeks and 5 aceptences followed by rejections of that
i decided it was not worth using altera devices on a device that is
going to get programed by hobby users
so although there software is free you are only garanteed use if you
register as using a registed company name or registed education
establisment
as to the other reply about converting the design to gEDA , not
shure how easy that will be ,, protel will create orcad files
although libraries have always seemed to cause problems in the past
when exporting the files
i have used pcb and tried gEDA, last time about 8 months ago
well schematic , np , creating net list np . getting pcb to import
net list well spent a day or two trying ,
does pcb have a parts footprint editor now , or is it still a case
of reverce engineering the current libs to figure out how to define
one
its a shame as gEDA shows the promise of beeing a good eda tool set
but the integration needed more work and it lacked a good editable
parts database
dxp is one of 2 programs that i have not found a sutable linux
replacment to that i need , although Metor Graphics do a linux pcb
package it costs almost dubble what dxp does and eagle does not
capable of what i need from it
dave
Dave
--- In Christopher Friedt <>
wrote:
>
> I thought I should correct myself -> I was misinformed and told
that the
> new board is using an Altera chip, while it is reality using a
Xilinx
> chip :)
>
> But I was just checking, and for linux support from Altera there
is no
> freely downloadable software. Are you using the windows version of
> Altera's IDE?
>
> ~/Chris
>
> Jesse Off wrote:
> >
> >>> Might I suggest that you consider a Xilinx FPGA instead? I
have
> > not used
> >>> Altera's IDE in quite some time, but ... just checking ...
yup,
> > still
> >>> requires the purchase of a license. Xilinx's linux suite is
all
> > free to
> >>> download if you create a username on their site.
> >
> > Altera's tools are free also. I've been using them on my laptop
at
> > home for a long time. I think the only time you need to pay for
the
> > tools is when you start using the really big FPGAs.
> >
> > //Jesse Off
> >
> >
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> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
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