The purpose I use GIMP a lot. I store the images in the native file format, XCF. Now I’m stuck with a lot of files I can’t see outside GIMP, but I don’t want to save those files as anything else, because I’ll lose all the layer data. Solution: Batch conversion to JPEG as a [...]
Foreword Before I say a word, my children, I have to warn you: What I’m about to teach you here is basically how to mess up your computer. It’s how to make Windows install the wrong driver for a USB device (possibly PCI devices as well). Don’t complain about a headache when you want to [...]
(…or why the Verilog-emacs AUTOARG is redundant) In Verilog, I never understood why port declarations appear both in the module declaration, and then immediately afterwards, along with the wires and registers. I mean, if the ports in the module declaration are always deducible from what follows immediately, why is the language forcing me to write [...]
Surprise, surprise! When porting a design from Spartan-3 to Virtex-4, I discovered that many registers, which were correctly placed in the IOB in the Spartan-3, fell off into fabric-placed flip-flops. Which is very bad news, since keeping the registers in the IOB isn’t just a matter of better timing, but rather repeatable timing, which is [...]
The problem: NGDBUILD tells you it can’t find a net or instance given in the UCF file. It’s likely that the synthesizer changed the names, sometimes slightly and sometimes beyond recognition. You need these names to define a timing group, for example, but how do you know them? Normally, I would get the net and [...]
One of the problems with setting up timing constraints in the UCF file, is to be sure that you got the right elements in, and kept the unnecessary ones out. Suppose I wrote something like NET “the_clock” TNM_NET = “tnm_ctrl_clk”; TIMESPEC “TS_ctrl_clk” = PERIOD “tnm_ctrl_clk” 40 ns HIGH 50 %; What logic element does it [...]
The old way Sometimes all you need is a quick crawl within a site, which requires to log in first. There are two main techniques I can think about: One is to POST the login form with your script, and get the necessary cookie setting. The second is to login manually with a browser, and [...]