Synthesis tool not integrated to MATLAB

Hi

I want to cosimulate 16 point ifft on Spartan-3e. I have Matlab 2010 and ISE synthesis 12.3 installed. In "HDL workflow Advisor" I get HDL code but when i select FPGAimplementation there is no Synthesis tool option to perform it.

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Answer 1

[Kaustubha Govind]

It doesn't look like Xilinx ISE 12.3 is officially supported (see http://www.mathworks.com/help/toolbox/slhdlcoder/bsv_x0g.html). But have you already used hdlsetuptoolpath to setup the synthesis tool path in MATLAB?

Answer 2

[aitizaz]

No i didn't use "hdlsetuptoolpath" till now.

What is the procedure to setup synthesis tool path in MATLAB?

 As the "hdlsetuptoolpath" deosnt works in my Matlab command line. 2ndly during ISE synthesis installation a window did appeared asking to integrate MATLAB which i selected and after that Xilinx system generator blocks do appear in Simulink means ISE synthesis has connectivity to Matlab but now integration to be done from  MATLAB side of ISE synthesis.

[Kaustubha Govind]

Do you see an error when you run hdlsetuptoolpath? Please post the exact message.

The window that appears with Xilinx ISE installation is probably only meant for System Generator. This is entirely different from the HDL Workflow Advisor. In other words, you have established a connection between ISE and MATLAB, but not the other way round. You need to run hdlsetuptoolpath to achieve this.

Answer 3

[aitizaz]

I get following message on writing command "hdlsetuptoolpath"

??? Undefined function or variable 'hdlsetuptoolpath'.

[Kaustubha Govind]

Sorry, it looks like 'hdlsetuptoolpath' was only introduced in R2011a because multiple third-party tools are supported and the tool can be used to select one of them. R2010a and R2010b only supported Xilinx ISE 11.2. I'm not sure if you don't see the tool because of version incompatibility.

However, it may be worth checking that ise.exe and xtclsh.exe are on the System PATH. For example, try running "ise" from the system command prompt - does this open up ISE? Also, run "xtclsh -h" - does it return help information of xtclsh?