Xilinx Impact Suddenly Stopped Working

[terriblefire]

Personally I have more experience with Intel/Altera tools than with Xilinx ones. But I'm not sure it is a good idea to run such legacy tools with a modern OS. If I'm not mistaken, ISE doesn't even support Windows 8, let alone Win 10 or Win 11.

I prefer to run these tools under a VM. You avoid all these problem altogether.

Of course its not a good idea but there isnt a whole lot of choice. Its horrific to have to have multiple Vms just to program a CPLD. And I have this stuff setup on 2 Macs and 3 PCs. Plus that Xilinx programmer can be sulky via VMs.

I run the toolchain in WSL. But the programmer i need in native WIn10. So i'll keep using Impact native for as long as it works.

If anyone had a chip as good as the 9500XL series i'd probably switch to it.

[ijor]

Of course its not a good idea but there isnt a whole lot of choice. Its horrific to have to have multiple Vms just to program a CPLD.

I haven't tried myself, but I understand that for the purpose of programming (not for development) you can use Vivado Lab tool for cpld and legacy devices.

[terriblefire]

Of course its not a good idea but there isnt a whole lot of choice. Its horrific to have to have multiple Vms just to program a CPLD.

I haven't tried myself, but I understand that for the purpose of programming (not for development) you can use Vivado Lab tool for cpld and legacy devices.

Its worth a try.

[ijor]

I haven't tried myself, but I understand that for the purpose of programming (not for development) you can use Vivado Lab tool for cpld and legacy devices.

Its worth a try.

I remember reading that in some cases you might need to add a CSV file. Check this Xilinx article: https://support.xilinx.com/s/article/61 ... uage=en_US

[cmorley]

Instead, using a hex editor, I patched Xilinx's libPortability.dll to cause the network share enumeration always to fail, without even calling the function that hangs. That has fixed iMPACT, the Project Navigator (IDE), and the other Xilinx programs for me. I did not observe any immediate side-effects of my patch. Presumably, there could be problems when one loads files from a network share. (I have no idea why the Xilinx software enumerates network shares in the first place.)

I tried your DLLs last night. Back to working and no problems to report. Thanks for doing this! :)