Thanks for the reply to my post, BrownOut. I almost feel like
somebody HA! By the way, if my profile had been edited and posted, you would have seen that MY location is Mobile, AL. Furthermore, I'm also a Huntspatch expatriot who attended Lee High School for a few years. Small world, huh? When we went to the Space Museum it was a small wooden building on the Arsenal and my girlfriend and I sometimes were the only visitors present. Many of the Germans, including Dr. Von Braun, would often be around to answer questions or chew the fat. Von Braun was a nice man.
To your reply let me first say that I'm just learning the ropes in the Circuit Sim arena so I'm no authority. With that disclaimer I will gladly share what I think I know. I went to my TinaTI help page and here is a copy and paste quote:
Create and save .VHD (VHDL source file) and .UCF (User Constraint File, specifying the pin assignment within the FPGA) files from a digital circuit.
"Note that in order to generate proper .UCF files, you should place FPGA pin components on the schematic (available at the Special component toolbar) specifying the FPGA connection with the switches, displays and other controls on the FPGA board. Check the files in TINA's
EXAMPLES/VHDL/FPGA folder as examples and use this command to generate the related .VHD and .UCF files. Once these files are created, you can compile them with the freely downloadable Webpack program at
FPGA and CPLD Solutions from Xilinx, Inc. under Download. Finally, download the resulting .BIT files into the TINALab FPGA or other Xilinx chip. Download the .BIT file into the TINALab FPGA or use the T&M | Download to FPGA Card…command."
There is no mention of additional (or any) cost OR to upgrading to the "PayFor" version. I THINK this may be what you're looking for. Again, I don't have the specific website URL for MY download but there are MANY sources and seemingly endless variations. Just do a Google search for Tina circuit simulator and browse. Meanwhile, I'll keep looking through my download for other clues.
Incidentally, I've noticed a good many of the others in here live North of the MD Line so we need to stick together. If they ever find out about grits and crawfish we'll never get rid of 'em!
Bob Bagwell
Mobile, AL