Re: Update on Carte Blanche status.

[Steven Hirsch <snhirsch@gmail.com>]

John B. Matthews wrote:

> > I use the native Xilinx (free) tools - ISE web edition. ISE runs 
> > under Windows or Linux. One can use other synthesizers but they all 
> > require Xilinx PAR in the end - for example Altium Designer.
>
> Excellent! I've had positive experiences running Ubuntu, Fedora and 
> CentOS on Intel Macs, as well as under VirtualBox or Parallels on Mac 
> OS X. It looks like the ISE Suite might run under CentOS, a RedHat EL 
> based distribution:

I have ISE Web Edition installed here under Ubuntu (x86_64, although it works 
fine on 32-bit systems).  It's a huge wad of code, so make sure you have 
plenty of drive space :-).