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3.0 out of 5 stars
Don't bother with this old version, get the newer version!, June 1, 1999
By A Customer
This review is from: Xilinx Student Edition (Version 1.3) (Hardcover)
Foundation Series F1.3 (Student Edition) has some serious problems you should be aware of...first of all it is *NOT* a Win32 program...Your project files must conform to the stupid MSDOS "8.3" convention. Large projects (something that you would do in a quarter, like a simple RISC processor) are prone to cause the software to crash.
Furthermore, this edition has *NO* HDL (VHDL or Verilog) capability...unless you count ABEL.
With that being said, get a book that comes with the *all new* 1.4 Student Edition. This edition is far far better, and although you will not get the hardcopy documentation that comes in F1.3, all the manuals are on-line in PDF anyway.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Wait for the new edition in 2/99, January 10, 1999
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This review is from: Xilinx Student Edition (Version 1.3) (Hardcover)
The text of the book was fairly instructive, but my computer won't run the software. It is hard to make a recommendation, except that I would wait for the new edition before purchasing.
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Very good package., March 16, 1999
By A Customer
This review is from: Xilinx Student Edition (Version 1.3) (Hardcover)
Great way to start using prorammable logic. Software is easy to use. I had no problem installing the software.
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