Quick Guide and Helpful Hints

With the Xilinx Board and its Software

Created by the people who produced the Digital Theremin:

Albert Ma, Timmy Church, Celia Valel, Alesya Bajoria, and Nicolas Lauzon

Introduction:

    This year is the first year that the Xilinx board has been used.  It is a good board but the big problem is with its documentation.
There are countless flaws encountered so it took a lot of time to get our project going because of the difficulty in using our board.
To prevent such disasters from ever happening again to other groups, we have compiled a quick quide to help any group to use the
Xilinx board properly and efficiently.
 

Table of Contents:

GXS Tools
    - GXS Tools have many functions such as loading files to the Xilinx board and setting the board clock frequency

Correct Board Pin Layout
    - The documentation for the board has errors about the pin layout of the Xilinx board.  Here is the correct layout.

Xilinx Project Navigator
    - The project navigator is where projects are compiled and source files are produced for downloading to the board.

Model Sim
    - Simulation of code can be done with Model Sim.  It is similar to MaxPlus II but not quite.

Implementing ROM
    - Helpful guide of implementing ROM using the Xilinx Core
 

Useful Links

Xilinx Home Page

EE 552 Home Page

EE 552 Student Application Notes Page