Installing Xilinx ISE/EDK 11.5 under Ubuntu 9.10
This guide tell how-to install Xilinx ISE and EDK under Ubuntu 9.10, using a 30-days evaluation license acquired at http://www.xilinx.com/ise_eval/index.htm.
Required tools
The EDK needs make, which must be called gmake. The easiest way is to install build essential and make a symlink from make to gmake. Futhermore fxload is needed for firmware upload and motif for the GUI.
sudo apt-get install fxload build-essential motif-clients sudo ln -s /usr/bin/make /usr/bin/gmake
If you have purchased a development board from Xilinx, use the included DVD:
cd /media/cdrom
sudo ./xsetup
If not, follow the download link at the above URL, and download the ISE Design Suite: Full DVD, which is roughly 5.6 GB and untar it:
mkdir ise
cd ise
tar -cvf Xilinx_11.1_ISE_DS_SFD.tar
cd Xilinx_11.1_ISE_DS_SFD
sudo ./xsetup
You do not need to use sudo, but if all users on the system should use EDK, it will be installed in /opt/Xilinx/ using sudo. If sudo is not used, it will be installed in /home/username/.
The installation process is straight forward, and will guide you to setting up a license in the last step. If you choose to use the 30-day trial, a browser will open the Xilinx license system, which will generate the license, download it and install it.
Start up scripts
In order to start xps the environment variable $XILINX must hold the path to ISE. To start xps type
export XILINX=/opt/Xilinx/11.1/ISE/ && /opt/Xilinx/11.1/EDK/bin/lin/xps
10. April, 2010 - 18:34
Does this work for x86_64 versions of Linux?
BTW, in the spirit of ‘cogito ergo sum’ it should be ‘I blog, therefore I am’ or something like that.
11. April, 2010 - 13:03
Hi Richard
According to the software matrix, http://www.xilinx.com/publications/matrix/Software_matrix.pdf, at
http://www.xilinx.com/tools/webpack.htm, WebPACK 11.4 has Linux
binaries for 64 bits. But according to “Supported Operating Systems” http://www.xilinx.com/ise/ossupport/index.htm at the same page, 64 bit is not supported.
I think it is an error that WebPACK 11.4 is 64 bits. However, it might be possible to run the 32 bits binaries at a 64 bits system:
– http://www.fpgacentral.com/group/fpga/ise-11-1-webpack-how-install-suse-64-bits-89702/
– http://dbaspot.com/forums/arch/383354-webpack-10-1-64-bit-linux.html
– http://forums.xilinx.com/xlnx/board/message?board.id=INSTALLBD&thread.id=828
10. May, 2010 - 19:17
Hi Richard
Xilinx WebPACK 12.1 is out, and according to http://www.xilinx.com/publications/matrix/Software_matrix.pdf it should be 64 bit.
/Christoffer