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Xilinx University Program offers our academic partners complete hardware and software solutions for teaching and research. The main CAD software frameworks available are listed below.

Logic Design

ISE® Foundation™ Software
The Integrated Software Environment (ISE) is the Xilinx design software suite that offers a comprehensive front-to-back design environment from design entry through Xilinx device programming and verification. The full commercial version is available to Professors who wish to install ISE in their educational or research labs. Download the free 60-day evaluation version.

ISE® WebPACK™ Software
ISE WebPACK tool is available free of charge to students via electronic software download over the web. WebPACK offers a subset of the features of ISE Foundation.

• Refer to ISE Features Guide for a comparison of the two versions.

PlanAhead™ Software
The PlanAhead tool streamlines the design step between synthesis and place and route, allowing you to divide a larger design up into smaller, more manageable blocks and focus efforts toward optimization of each module. This methodology results in dramatically improved performance and quality of the entire design. Download the free 60-day evaluation version.

Embedded Design

Embedded Development Kit
EDK is the Xilinx design software tool suite for designing embedded processor systems on
programmable logic. It supports the IBM PowerPC® hard processor core and the Xilinx MicroBlaze™
soft processor core. The full commercial version is available to Professors who wish to install EDK
in their educational or research labs. Download the free 60-day evaluation version.

DSP Design

System Generator for DSP
System Generator enables designers to develop high-performance DSP systems for Xilinx FPGAs
using the popular MATLAB/Simulink products from The MathWorks, Inc. The full commercial version
is available to Professors who wish to install System Generator in their educational or research labs.
Download the free 60-day evaluation version.

AccelDSP™ Synthesis Tool
Option to System Generator for DSP enabling a top-down MATLAB language-based DSP design
methodology. Download the free 60-day evaluation version.

On-Chip Verification

ChipScope™ Pro Tool
Chipscope-Pro is the Xilinx design software tool suite that enables in-circuit logic analysis of your
FPGA design. It allows the user full access to signals inside Xilinx FPGAs, including embedded
processor busses. Download the free 60-day evaluation version.