First Project with WireFrame FPGA Board LED Blinking Test – Binary Counter with VerilogHDL, Xilinx ISE Tutorial

Xlinux is one of the Major player in FPGA, they provide limited Free Development Environment under the name of Xilinx  ISE Design Suite. you can download it from there website and install it into you workstation it is nice and simple , no drama what so ever.

once you launch the  ISE Project Navigator , you have to click new project button in the left or in the menu bar, it will look  kind of  as shown in the image below.

You have to specify the project name and working directory for that project. project name can be any thing.

next step you have to select the target device , as in the demonstration we are working with WireFrame board  which has Xilinx XC3S250E, so you chose the family sparten3E and chose the device to be XC3S250E , and you need specify the speed grade of the FPGA also which is -4 at our board , ( you can see marking on the chip)

You need to specify the preferred language to be verilog as we are going to write code in verilogHDL.