Quartus and Xilinx

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Hello all,

A while ago I had read somewhere something that looked like you could compile a xilinx project with Quartus and I see a lot of answers when someone working with ise: use Quartus.

So my question is, is it really possible to use Quartus and make xilinx projects. If so, how do I tell Quartus it should look for the Xilinx files, wherever Xilinx hides them?

Right, I just found a post they don't support each other, but I didn't find it in the search for Xilinx, but underneath my post in similiar threads and its last post was 2010. But than I assume they still don't support?

Greetings,

ZeMoi

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You are asking for trouble. Altera and Xilinx are at extreme ends of alphabet. Any mixing is a dangerous ****tail and smoke will go up.

Actually in one way I would say you are absolutely right, it can never be of any good to let them compile other vendors FPGA code.

The other way I would say, why can't they have some similiar compiler, I would think they both must do exactly the same thing: read file, make an FPGA design, convert to chip. Or is it the software part that doesnt matter and shouldn't I see it as c code converted to the right os? I really have no idea how I should look at the way FPGA's are configured, I would say with just some zero's and one's and thats it

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Actually in one way I would say you are absolutely right, it can never be of any good to let them compile other vendors FPGA code.

The other way I would say, why can't they have some similiar compiler, I would think they both must do exactly the same thing: read file, make an FPGA design, convert to chip. Or is it the software part that doesnt matter and shouldn't I see it as c code converted to the right os? I really have no idea how I should look at the way FPGA's are configured, I would say with just some zero's and one's and thats it

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I hope the world stayed that simple. The reality is each developed their products their way to make money. The trade secrets are kept tight.

@kaz

Allright, than thats one less concern to think about. I need to try and automate the compilation process and thought people might only have Quartus and want to compile it with it. Now I can just say; compile it with the Xilinx environment you like, when using Xilinx FPGA and compile it with the Altera vendor you like, when using Altera FPGA's:)

@skyjuice88

I have read a part of that indeed, but I can't do much with that. I don't have a clue what Xilinx tools are doing, whatever they are supposed to do and I do understand the Quartus tool. So I would first figure out how these Xilinx tools work, I actually need the other way around. How to convert my Quartus design to this ISE design, I really can't understand how people work with that tool.

I am a happy Quartus user:) and an unhappy person probably abusing ISE instead of using it.

Thanks