Your ML501 Evaluation Platform is a general purpose board that ships with a number of demonstration designs pre-installed on the Compact Flash card, Platform Flash, and Linear Flash memories. The ML501 Getting Started Tutorial describes how to quickly get started using your ML501. This tutorial also contains a number of hands-on user lab exercises to help you explore the features of your ML501.
The Xilinx Base System Builder (BSB) wizard helps users quickly build a working embedded processing system design through an easy to use GUI interface. The XPS project created by BSB can be run as generated or further enhanced with peripherals added from the EDK IP catalog.
Please see Answer Record # 34466 for the ISE 12.1 Design Suite Known Issues.
EDK 12.1/ ISE 12.1Using the Xilinx Core Generator™ Memory Interface Generator to build a DDR2 design. Includes ChipScope™ Pro addition and testing.
The ML501 can be used to demonstrate a variety of Virtex-5 configuration methods. Initial board bring-up and testing can be accomplished with the Xilinx tools, a JTAG cable, along with the bitstreams and ELF files from the ML501 standalone applications page. Subsequently, ACE files containing both hardware and software initialization components can be generated and loaded from a CompactFlash card by the onboard System ACE™ CF controller. A new Virtex-5 configuration method loads bitstreams directly from a linear flash memory device. Demonstrating the various Virtex-5 configuration methods is user-selectable through a DIP switch.