fpgaEva: Source and Build Instructions

What is fpgaEva?

System Requirement

• There's no special requirement on the hardware as long as you can run Java program comfortably, since fpgaEva doesn't take much CPU time or memory.
• You're required to have an Internet connection if you are running fpgaEva on a non-unix based computer or if you don't have our RASP system installed on your local unix machine. Although dial-up connections are acceptable to run fpgaEva, a faster internet connection is always desirable.  The network traffic for each evaluation session is roughly 20~200K bytes.
• You must have JDK 1.1 or above to build fpgaEva, which means you must have either installed SUN's JDK 1.1 package or have a compatible JDK from other vendors. SUN's JDK 1.1 is free to download for both UNIX platform and Windows platform. Other commercial Jave Development Environments which support JDK 1.1 include Microsoft's Visual J++ 6.0. JDK 1.2, which has recently been renamed to Java2 SDK, is also ok to run fpgaEva.

Source Code

• A complete list of source files of the newest version of fpgaEva can be found by following this link.
• The image files can be found at http://cadlab.cs.ucla.edu/~huanghui/fpgaEva/051999/images
• The help files can be found at http://cadlab.cs.ucla.edu/~huanghui/fpgaEva/051999/help


For your convenience, I've put a zipped archive which includes all the above files at http://cadlab.cs.ucla.edu/~huanghui/fpgaEva/src_archive/051999.tgz
You may download this file directly and use "WinZip" or "gzip" to extract it.
 

How to compile?

• Copy all the source files (with ".java" as file extensions) into one directory, e.g. "/dir". It's going to be the main directory of fpgaEva.
• Type "javac *.java" at command line. (Please make sure "javac" is in the PATH environment)
• You may receive one warning message -- "Note: 17 files use deprecated APIs. Recompile with "-deprecation" for details." -- if everything goes on smoothly. Don't worry about this message. Please send us email if you received other error/warning message(s) or the compilation failed.
• Make a directory called "images" as a subdirectory of your main directory, for our case, it should be called "/dir/images". Copy all the image files into that directory.
• Make a directory called "help" as a subdirectory of your main directory, for our case, it should be called "/dir/help". Copy all the help files into that directory.
• Before running fpgaEva, you should correctly set the CLASSPATH environment to contain your main directory.


Now, you can run fpgaEva by issuing the command "java fpgaEva". (You could also download the loader file into your main directory and run fpgaEva by the command "java loader". The advantage of using "java loader" to run fpgaEva is that it will check our lab server to see if there's a newer version of fpgaEva. The loader program will automatically update fpgaEva if a newer version is found. However, as you are trying to modify fpgaEva for your own purpose, I don't think it's wise to use the loader program provided by us, since it will try to replace your modified program with our standard version of fpgaEva.)

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