Not knowing that I could have just saved wave.do instead of write my own entirely by hand.
Understand what was going on and what actually needed to be done for the projects.I admittedly struggled on this course a bit. Okay, so it turns out the COMP3601 Design Project A is a FPGA-based project, so its back to more VHDL. Original blog post: I've now moved my COMP3211 tips onto the csesoc wiki - including my fix for the ISE 11 uninstaller breaking the Windows Installer Service (double clicking any MSI file from Windows Explorer fails with 2502/2503). Xilinx does not plan to release any further updates – sending the message that ISE has well and truly been discontinued. Follow the instructions in the article, particularly the section titled “ ISE 14.7 64-bit – Turning off SmartHeap”.
Update: Xilinx have published a support article ISE Install – Guide to Installing and Running ISE 10.1 or 14.7 on a Windows 8.1 or Window 10 machine which documents the same workaround as has been described in this YouTube video.
