lecroy7200@chek.com
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 Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 2:09 pm Post subject: Re: Would like to try ISIM, simple question |
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It's been a month now and Xilinx is just now getting all the accounts
to work. So I have been pounding out Webcases now for about a week.
When they moved away from the DVDs, forced us to purchase from Avnet
and dropped phone support, we were screwed. Avnet was zero help.
Xilinx would not talk to us on the phone. As Xilinx worked to get
the licenses sorted out I actually got a letter from them that I was
shocked when I read but I thought it really summed up the new Xilinx.
It's a new company for sure.
I can't explain it but after running the built-in web updater, ISIM
has gotton much more stable. I went ahead and installed 10.1.03 onto
my normal PC which runs XP 64. ISIM seems to run fine on this PC as
well, while in 32-bit mode. In the past two days I have had only one
crash where I had to flush the entire design to get it working again.
This was the only crash. Before I was seeing 6 - 10 crashes per day.
More strange also is that my evalution is now much more complex.
There was nothing in the release notes that talked about improving
ISIMs stability so the two may have nothing to do with one another.
I am finding some missing features that I would really like to have,
like the analog display. The graphing is some of the worst code I
have seen wrote. Zoom out for example and you may not see all the
state changes. Zoom and pan, don't even get me started.. I think
this part was given to the intern. I have been told that the
graphing in 11.1 is much better and I am trying to see what it takes
to get a beta copy.
There was another post where a person had asked about using ModelSim
rather than ISIM. Just to be clear, we have been using Aldec but they
really started to fall behind (that lawsuit IMO was like the dog that
bit the hand that fed him) . Now that they are partners with Xilinx,
I am hoping that they get their act together. I am using ISIM just
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