CMPEN297B Penn State University 2/13/2008 Kyusun Choi

CMPEN297B Penn State University 2/13/2008 Kyusun Choi

Digital Logic Design Tools

The commercial CAD tool used for CMPEN 297B is ISE WebPACK. The tool is available free from Xilinx. One may download the tools from the following Xilinx web page:

http://www.xilinx.com/ise/logic_design_prod/webpack.htm

You will need to register with Xilinx in order to download files. You will be automatically prompted to register with Xilinx when you click to download.

Click on Download ISE WebPACK for Windows.

Click on Single File Download (32-bit only) .

Once registered and logged-in, you will be able to download both latest ISE WebPACK.

Click “Next” button.

Select proper categories for each field and click “Next” button.

Select “Save to Disk” and click “OK”

Wait for the download to complete. This may take a while. You may want to do this at the computer with high-speed internet connection, such as on-campus computer lab. You may want to put the downloaded file on USB flash memory or DVD disk.

Once the file is downloaded, unzip the file and install the WebPACK program. One may need 10GB of hard drive space to complete unzip and installation.

Downloaded zip file is placed in a folder.

Right click on the file and select “Extract All … “ option.

Click and wait for file extraction.

Once the file is extracted (unzipped), install the WebPACK_92i by double clicking the WebPACK_SFD_92i folder and double clicking the “setup.exe” file in the folder.

Then, follow the Xilinx installation screens.

Select the following installation options!!! (This is important!)

Wait for the installation.

Now the WebPACK installation is done.

Now, start the ISE WebPACK. You may double click on the icons on your desktop or use Windows Start menu (and run ISE Project Navigator).

Once the ISE program is up and running, you are ready to use ISE WebPACK tool.

You may start the digital design for the Homework 5.