Hello people,
I am strictly a schematic user, please don't turn this thread
into a "but HDLs are really better!!".
I'd like to get a new hobby, i.e. to design some (simple for
now, but then also complex) devices on a SpartanII 300E board.
The kind of devices I'd like to design range from TTL style at
the begin, till, someday, complete CPUs and simple multimedia
devices (e.g. graphic chips as seen in the '80s home computers).
I downloaded and installed Webpack, but I've been very
disappointed. It looks totally HDL oriented to me.. maybe
I'm wrong, but I couldn't see there what I'm looking for.
What I'm looking for (pardon the redundancy) is a simple
but yet powerful editor that will let me enter a schematic
(NAND gates, Flip-Flops, etc..); will also let me make new
devices from schematics (i.e. macros!); then *possibly*
simulate all of that; and then finally burn it into my
SpartanIIE chip, letting me also setup various features
of the FPGA (e.g. how to load the initial contents of
block RAM, etc..).
I have some money to invest, eventually, if the software
is not free.. but I'd like to know all the options before.
Please.. can anybody shed some light? I'm very confused
and lost..
Greets,
John
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