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Is this Virtex-4?Article: 95526
Hi Abgoyal, abgoyal@gmail.com wrote: > Just thought I'd let everyone whos been waiting for it know right away: > EDK 8.1 was released on Xilinx Subscribernet last night!! > > I know i have been counting days! > > Downloading it right now. Hope the mb-uclinux BSPs work out fine on > this release. The most recent version of the uclinux auto-config BSP, 1.00.d, should work just fine with 8.1. Available from here: http://www.petalogix.com/resources/downloads/ Regards, JohnArticle: 95527
Roger wrote: > I'm trying to instantiate some LVDS input buffers in VHDL using the > following code: > > LVDS_lines: > for i in 0 to 19 generate > Inputs_LVDS : IBUFDS_LVDS_25_DT -- LVDS input buffer with Rterm > active > port map ( > I => data_lvds_in_p(i), > IB => data_lvds_in_n(i), > O => data_lvds_in_sig(i)); > end generate; > > > but ISE doesn't seem to recognise IBUFDS_LVDS_25_DT as it just gives me an > Undefined Symbol error. Missing off the DT is OK but I need the termination > resistor to be active so it has to be this buffer. You didn't mention what part you are using. But generally, Xilinx refers to it's termination scheme as "Digitally Controlled Impedance" IIRC, and the IO name is IBUFDS_LVDS_25_DCI.Article: 95528
"Austin Lesea" <austin@xilinx.com> wrote in message news:dr3ml3$igc3@xco-news.xilinx.com... > Rick, > > I have said (this will be the third time) that Peter and I agreed to 'try' > to do this differently going forward. > > Wish us luck. > > Austin Austin, I'm glad to see this attitude taking shape. Thrilled, actually, at the thought of your MarComm group presenting data in datasheets. As far as repeating yourself, consider that different newsgroup readers (or settings) present the posts in different orders. The first (or second) response should be sufficient since the thread takes different branches; please don't take it personally that there are still a few posts that come in in the hours after you first post the good news. Thanks for the effort on our behalf, - John_HArticle: 95529
Hello Charlie, > Well, I have a PE, for what its worth. I don't do public engineering > anymore, and I didn't have the PE when I did, but I did a lot of work > that REQUIRED a PE stamp somewhere in the process. That was when I was > working in building A/V systems and toll road construction. > That is the only discipline from which I know a couple of PEs. In medical there is no stamp requirement. It all goes through a rigorous risk assessment and review (ECO) process which I believe is better than having a single engineer decide. If you don't follow that process and FDA finds out as they eventually will they'd be very unhappy. The sanctions can go all the way to plant closure and that has happened to some. When I design something without being an employee I am allowed to present, even write the whole documentation. However, I am not allowed to sign off on anything in the ECO process. Signature authority is handled in one of the standard operating procedures (SOP) and must be adhered to no matter what. It's a pretty tight system. > Big thing for a PE is when you are designing work for public > construction, such as buildings or road or dams and such. Also, certain > goverment contracts may require a PE to be in the process. Also, if you > are going to advertise services AS AN ENGINEER, then you have to have a > PE on staff. I just warned a good friend of mine about that. He knew I > had my own fictional company, Edmondson Engineering, so he created his > own company, and called it XXX Engineering. I warned him that, unless > he included someone with a PE on his staff with considerable ownership, > he was in trouble. I then offered my services... 8-) > Either that or he has to change the company name. Usually license boards are after the really heavy hitters, people who fake it, using a bogus license number or somebody else's to get in on a public works project. That's outright fraud. Heck, people even do that in the trades where it is rather easy to obtain a license. I believe engineering license boards should look at how the contractor boards do it instead of mounting a huge pile of obstacles. Check someone's degree (it's not rocket science), get some proof of work history from publications, tax returns and the like, then let them sit for a written test on ethics and business basics and issue the license. Or drop the whole rigamaroo and just register all the engineers with degrees. When something goes wrong it won't matter whether someone had a PE or no but then at least they'd have address and phone numbers, to find out who dunnit. Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.comArticle: 95530
John, Thanks. I understand that posts come from many places, through many portals... Austin John_H wrote: > "Austin Lesea" <austin@xilinx.com> wrote in message > news:dr3ml3$igc3@xco-news.xilinx.com... > >>Rick, >> >>I have said (this will be the third time) that Peter and I agreed to 'try' >>to do this differently going forward. >> >>Wish us luck. >> >>Austin > > > > Austin, > > I'm glad to see this attitude taking shape. Thrilled, actually, at the > thought of your MarComm group presenting data in datasheets. > > As far as repeating yourself, consider that different newsgroup readers (or > settings) present the posts in different orders. The first (or second) > response should be sufficient since the thread takes different branches; > please don't take it personally that there are still a few posts that come > in in the hours after you first post the good news. > > Thanks for the effort on our behalf, > - John_H > >Article: 95531
"Rich Grise, but drunk" <yahright@example.net> wrote in message > <Rich googles a little> > Holy Yikes! > http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Slovenia&btnG=Search&ll=42.309815,15.600586&spn=9.487596,25.136719&t=h > > How's the beaches there? Do they have naked ladies running around? <leer, > snort> ;-P Sure, topless is very common in the summer on every beach. Something you don't see often in the US. Sometimes, if you go a a bit up or down from the main beach to the more off-hand beaches you will see them fully naked :) SioLArticle: 95532
Hello Terry, > > care to supply a few more details? > > war stories are fun. except when actually about war. > Can't, it was done under contract and might still be in the process of being duked out. Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.comArticle: 95533
"Rich Grise, but drunk" <yahright@example.net> wrote in message > I don't know what you yer-a-peein' guys eat, but in America Michelins are > tires. [tyres]. They're made of rubber, you put them on your car wheels, > and they taste terrible and are almost impossible to chew. How do you know, have you tried? :) SioLArticle: 95534
Ray Andraka wrote: > Jim Granville wrote: > >> >> Radical Idea: Give Marketing the front page(s) of the data sheets, and >> let engineering control the rest, and label the pages accordingly. >> Then _everyone_ knows what they are reading... >> > > Better yet, leave the brochure to marketing and the data sheet to > engineering. The data sheet shouldn't be the sales tool any more than > the slick marketing brochure is an engineering document. > > It is ridiculous having to mine the data sheets for such basic important > information as the LUT count. Nobody using these devices gives a flying > fig about the number of "marketing gates" or "equivalent LUTs". Those > figures simply have no meaning to an engineer, and have no place on a > data sheet. I fully agree - I was just looking for an incremental change, that those in marketing might not notice... :) -jgArticle: 95535
Hello Terry, > > Thats why I live in small-town NZ (Te Aroha, pop. about 5,000) rather > than auckland. > Ours is pop 15,000 but I have to say that it's slowly getting too crowded. The nice thing is that people can fly right into here, the air strip is a few minutes walking in the middle of town. You can actually legally taxy your aircraft onto quite a few streets here. > > Admittedly the choices for restaurants arent great, but thats what > cooking was invented for. ... Nah, that's what the barbie is for. Going to fire it up in a couple hours for a nice big tritip steak. Plus some other goodies. Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.comArticle: 95536
The part is Virtex IIPro. It's not the DCI I'm looking for, it's the on-chip 100R termination. Thanks. Roger. "Roger" <enquiries@rwconcepts.co.uk> wrote in message news:T0dBf.108165$7p5.45109@newsfe4-win.ntli.net... > I'm trying to instantiate some LVDS input buffers in VHDL using the > following code: > > LVDS_lines: > for i in 0 to 19 generate > Inputs_LVDS : IBUFDS_LVDS_25_DT -- LVDS input buffer with Rterm > active > port map ( > I => data_lvds_in_p(i), > IB => data_lvds_in_n(i), > O => data_lvds_in_sig(i)); > end generate; > > > but ISE doesn't seem to recognise IBUFDS_LVDS_25_DT as it just gives me an > Undefined Symbol error. Missing off the DT is OK but I need the > termination resistor to be active so it has to be this buffer. > > If anyone has any ideas what's wrong I'd be grateful to hear. > > TIA. > > Rog. >Article: 95537
Neil Glenn Jacobson wrote: > Jim Granville wrote: > >> Neil Glenn Jacobson wrote: >> That's Spac 3 ?! - did I miss Spac 1 and Spac 2 ? - and 8.1i is only >> days old.... >> >> -jg >> >> > Jim, > > 8.1i was released December 5th, 2005. Service Pack 1 was released Jan > 9th. Service Pack 2 is making its way through the release process with > a projected release date of Feb 9th. Hope that helps. Thanks Glenn, I've given this a new title, as it is usefull information for project planning. Do you have a tentative date for Sp3 [ Mar 9th :) ] ? -jgArticle: 95538
In article <P_bBf.20587$F_3.751@newssvr29.news.prodigy.net>, Joerg <notthisjoergsch@removethispacbell.net> writes >Hello Chris, > >>>If you are >>>competant, you should have little trouble navigating the application >>>process. >> >> I agree. >> > >Ain't that easy. Explained with link further below. You need to look at >the req's of each state. Each state has their own turf. > >> >> Much the same as the UK.... in fact there is a general harmonisation of >> the requirements world wide between the various regulatory bodies. >> > >I've lived in Europe and most countries, such as Germany, do not have >any license. So it couldn't possibly be harmonized. Things have changed. >>>The PEs who provide your references do not have to be in the same >>>discipline, nor do they need to have any expertise in your area of work. >>>They are basically vouching for you by stating that your work is >>>worthy of a professional and that you are moral and ethical in your >>>work. It doesn't mean they have to be a co-worker or know the intimate >>>details of your work. >> >> However in the UK they tend to like them as close to your work as >> possible and it is the same with the interview. >> >> though to be honest the people who say there is no one who can asses me >> are either The leading expert in the field in which case their work will >> be well known or else they are making excuses. >> > >No. And the refs do have to be from your discipline. as I said: "However in the UK...." and you quote some foreign regs at me. >Look at page three >number 12 in this doc (the application for for California): >http://www.dca.ca.gov/pels/a_peappform.pdf > >Clearly says: "For each engagement claimed as qualifying experience, >list the name of a person who will serve as a reference. These >individuals should be licensed as Professional Engineers in the >discipline for which you are applying. YOU MUST LIST AT LEAST FOUR >PERSONS WILLING TO SERVE AS REFERENCES FOR YOU." > >So far for making excuses ;-) That is different to the UK system. >>>Ahh, but you do offer your services to the public. Offering services to >>>a company that you are not on the direct payroll for is offering >>>services to the public. >> >> Yes. Though there is probably a legal hair to split on Business to >> business trade as opposed to business to individual people >> > >No hair splitting. In CA public is not industry. Industry is not the >public. That is what I meant. >What would be against the rules is if someone would advertise >"Engineer will design and realize your new home solar system..." or >something like that. 'Home' clearly hints he wants to sell services to >the public and that requires a PE. Or in this case at least a >contractors license. Fair enough. >> So perhaps it is time to apply before they raise the bar. >> > >It seems to be going the other direction. A few years ago they changed >the board from being a separate entity and put it under Consumer >Affairs. The applicant numbers in EE are very low, just a few hundred a >year and most of these fail the test. So they jacked up the fees which >probably leads to a further applicant reduction some day. > > >> Ironically as a Chartered Electrical Engineer I am no longer able to do >> household wiring. You have to be a licensed electrician (it's been the >> same for domestic Gas fitters for years) . >> > >That is really weird. Not really. Qualifications for a professional Electrical Engineer are not the same as for am electrician. I can design electronics such as RF transceivers and MCU systems but don't know the (legally required) Electrical wiring regs for houses. -- \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ \/\/\/\/\ Chris Hills Staffs England /\/\/\/\/ /\/\/ chris@phaedsys.org www.phaedsys.org \/\/\ \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/Article: 95539
SioL wrote: > "Rich Grise, but drunk" <yahright@example.net> wrote in message > >><Rich googles a little> >>Holy Yikes! >>http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Slovenia&btnG=Search&ll=42.309815,15.600586&spn=9.487596,25.136719&t=h >> >>How's the beaches there? Do they have naked ladies running around? <leer, >>snort> ;-P > > > Sure, topless is very common in the summer on every beach. > Something you don't see often in the US. > > Sometimes, if you go a a bit up or down from the main beach to the more off-hand > beaches you will see them fully naked :) You don't need to travel overseas, assuming you're from the US. Head to Stinson beach, about 20 miles north of San Francisco. Start walking north for about 1/4 mile and you come to Red Rock Beach: http://www.redrockbeach.com/home.html On a crowded day it's a little too much like a photo of Dante's Inferno for my tastes (:Article: 95540
Austin Lesea wrote: > If all you read is the top sheet, then you have just "scratched the > surface" are are subject to the 'promotional' side of the presentation: > all of the elements that we think are new and exciting, and different. Actually, you can read the entire data sheet for electrical specifications and not find any discussion about derating the device for toggle rate in terms of either power or heat. You can go on to read the users guide and find a discussion about derating for switching I/O that is very good and complete. The absence of similar data on LUT/FF/Routing/BRAM's is what is troubling, and the omission implies in some respects that it's not a problem. We do know better right ... so don't hide the data in the places newbie design engineers will read carefully. > Sure, go ahead and toggle every single flip flop and IO simultaneously > at max frequency, and I will assure you that you will not like the result. yes ... but show us where in the data sheet which is supposed to have the specifications for the device where this derating is even hinted at? In the user manual? > But that is not what our customers do: rather, we provide devices that > are programmed by them to solve problems. If the device chosen has too > few resources, then they can (and do) go to the next larger device. If > the device chosen gets too hot, they can (and do) use better heatsinks, > or change their design. Trail and error is not part of the design process we call engineering. Having solid data, properly disclosed where it can NOT BE AVOIDED by a typical engineer reading the data sheets and users manual is proper disclosure. > It is called engineering. No, that is experimentation ... engineering is having the data up front. Delivering reliable reconfigurable computing platforms where the end user is free to put any net list on the chip requires doing worst case designs for power and thermal. Worst case data is simply not available, and as far as I can tell, the device is non-function with worst case netlists, or soon will be from thermal runaway.Article: 95541
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 00:56:04 +0100, "SioL" <Sio_spam_L@same.net> wrote: >"Rich Grise, but drunk" <yahright@example.net> wrote in message >> <Rich googles a little> >> Holy Yikes! >> http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Slovenia&btnG=Search&ll=42.309815,15.600586&spn=9.487596,25.136719&t=h >> >> How's the beaches there? Do they have naked ladies running around? <leer, >> snort> ;-P > >Sure, topless is very common in the summer on every beach. >Something you don't see often in the US. > >Sometimes, if you go a a bit up or down from the main beach to the more off-hand >beaches you will see them fully naked :) > >SioL > We have a couple of nude beaches here in San Francisco, but it's so cold most days that the best you see is a cute girl in a parka. There are more, warmer nude beaches up and down the coast. http://gocalifornia.about.com/cs/clothingoptional/a/nudebeach.htm On Kauai (legally still the USA!) there are some beautiful beaches with (generally) beautiful nekkid people to be seen. JohnArticle: 95542
Hello Chris, >>I've lived in Europe and most countries, such as Germany, do not have >>any license. So it couldn't possibly be harmonized. > > Things have changed. > Maybe but not in Germany. A few days ago I mentioned engineering licensure in a German forum. The response was "What's that?". >>> >>>However in the UK they tend to like them as close to your work as >>>possible and it is the same with the interview. >>> >>>though to be honest the people who say there is no one who can asses me >>>are either The leading expert in the field in which case their work will >>>be well known or else they are making excuses. >> >>No. And the refs do have to be from your discipline. > > as I said: "However in the UK...." and you quote some foreign regs at > me. > Yes, because you said that I am just making excuses without knowing the regs we are under. I happen not to live in the UK (too much rain there...). Therefore, I wanted to show you the rather huge bureaucratic hurdles they put in the way this side of the pond. >>>Ironically as a Chartered Electrical Engineer I am no longer able to do >>>household wiring. You have to be a licensed electrician (it's been the >>>same for domestic Gas fitters for years) . >> >>That is really weird. > > Not really. Qualifications for a professional Electrical Engineer are > not the same as for am electrician. I can design electronics such as RF > transceivers and MCU systems but don't know the (legally required) > Electrical wiring regs for houses. > Laws, regulations, more laws. One trait of engineers is or at least should be that they know where their limits are. Not because they are told by bureaucrats what they can do but because they should have the ethics to say "no". I feel very comfortable working on mains voltage level but I know, for example, that when a gas pressure reducer went on the fritz I had to leave that to experts in that field. Ain't my turf. Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.comArticle: 95543
"John Larkin" <jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote in message news:63vat1h32alqpi60fvb3evti3isgmjfeu1@4ax.com... >>Sometimes, if you go a a bit up or down from the main beach to the more off-hand >>beaches you will see them fully naked :) >>SioL >> > We have a couple of nude beaches here in San Francisco, but it's so > cold most days that the best you see is a cute girl in a parka. There > are more, warmer nude beaches up and down the coast. > http://gocalifornia.about.com/cs/clothingoptional/a/nudebeach.htm > On Kauai (legally still the USA!) there are some beautiful beaches > with (generally) beautiful nekkid people to be seen. > John Are they open to the public or fenced? Nowadays, with cameras on every phone, you risk ending up in a chain e-mail for the whole world to see ;) SioLArticle: 95544
Antti Lukats wrote: > " > if nothing helps open webcase, ie the usual path.well as WebCase support is > now done from China I doubt if that brings anything. Antti, you are smart, energetic, and imaginative, but why do you write such nonsense? You have no reason to assume that TechSupport for US or Europe would come out of China. You just made that up, didn't you ? Hurts your credibility! Peter AlfkeArticle: 95545
Antti Lukats wrote: > " > if nothing helps open webcase, ie the usual path.well as WebCase support is > now done from China I doubt if that brings anything. Antti, you are smart, energetic, and imaginative, but why do you write such nonsense? You have no reason to assume that TechSupport for US or Europe would come out of China. You just made that up, didn't you ? Hurts your credibility! Peter AlfkeArticle: 95546
SioL wrote: > > "Rich Grise, but drunk" <yahright@example.net> wrote in message > > I don't know what you yer-a-peein' guys eat, but in America Michelins are > > tires. [tyres]. They're made of rubber, you put them on your car wheels, > > and they taste terrible and are almost impossible to chew. > > How do you know, have you tried? :) > > SioL It isn't the rubber he'd have problems with, it would be the steel belting that would be hard to chew. -- Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to prove it. Member of DAV #85. Michael A. Terrell Central FloridaArticle: 95547
"Richard the Dreaded Libertarian" <eatmyshorts@doubleclick.net> wrote in message news:pan.2006.01.23.22.15.15.85409@doubleclick.net... > > Unfortunately, I fear that America is at the brink of the same level of > mass stupidity that got Hitler elected as Chancellor of Germany lo > those many years ago. That is also my fear. And that of many of my European friends. In fact, it's probably the European view in a nutshell. To Europeans, the US seems adolescent, a bit immature, a bit spoiled-brat - and doomed to repeat the same (serious) mistakes we made while growing up. Albeit with more swagger and more swag, and a very scary self-righteousness born of what looks from here like national religious fundamentalism. This is "The World's Policeman" - eek! Sorry, US friends. It had to be said. I'm part French, part British. I've lived all over Europe, and I've lived and worked in the US; I'm no xenophobe. I'm just appalled at the increasingly "it's our world" attitude of our western colonial brethren. It's like having an 18-stone younger brother who keeps rocking the boat - wise up and SIT THE FUCK DOWN! Imperialism no longer works; it's *so* last century. The gradient between developed and undeveloped which imperialism has exploited for so long is disappearing - and quite rightly so. To return to the OP's point, this seems self-evident whether you're talking about military influence, oil, industry, or simply idealogy, education, and the right to be fed and to earn a living. Think Apollo 8's "fragile marble". Think "global". Otherwise we are indeed shooting ourselves in the foot. Steve http://www.fivetrees.comArticle: 95548
Brian Drummond wrote: > IMO there should be no conflict between the continued existence of a > technology in open-source form using XDL, and the same or derived > technology streamlined into the push-button flow using NCD. > Xilinx use open-source tools for PPC development already. As long as the project didn't inadvertently compile and disclose the routing database as the JHDLbits project did, things are probably ok. As Phil notes though, and others have suggested, one set of tools that would be interesting would be ones capable of fixing bad nets, and that would require a database of chip capabilities and architecture that is currently only visible from the floor planner and device editors. Extracting that data and archiving it in a format useable for third party tools is pretty much what got the JHDLbits project shut down.Article: 95549
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 02:23:10 +0100, "SioL" <Sio_spam_L@same.net> wrote: >"John Larkin" <jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote in message news:63vat1h32alqpi60fvb3evti3isgmjfeu1@4ax.com... > >>>Sometimes, if you go a a bit up or down from the main beach to the more off-hand >>>beaches you will see them fully naked :) >>>SioL >>> >> We have a couple of nude beaches here in San Francisco, but it's so >> cold most days that the best you see is a cute girl in a parka. There >> are more, warmer nude beaches up and down the coast. >> http://gocalifornia.about.com/cs/clothingoptional/a/nudebeach.htm >> On Kauai (legally still the USA!) there are some beautiful beaches >> with (generally) beautiful nekkid people to be seen. >> John > >Are they open to the public or fenced? All open, generally the end of a public beach sort of away from the parking lot, just past yonder rock or something. The NaPali beach on Kauai, spectacularly beautiful and mostly nude, is a serious hike from the nearest road. >Nowadays, with cameras on every phone, you risk ending up in a chain e-mail >for the whole world to see ;) Yup. Soon everything public will be videoed. Keeps the cops honest. John
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