Atmel STK594 Section 3 Installing System Designer

FPSLIC STK594 User Guide 3-1

Rev. 2819A–FPSLI–07/02

Section 3Installing System Designer

System Designer is the ideal software platform for all AT94K FPSLIC developm ent. It

includes an Editor, an Assembler and a De bugger as its development tools for the

embedded AVR development ,a nd also includes a Simulator, Synthesizer and a Pla ce

and Route tool for FPGA development. System Designer also includes a Co-V erification

suite poweredby Mentor Graphics®, allowing for step-by -step simulation of the FPGA

and AVR design concurrently.

For a single-user system, System Designer requires a personal computer equipped as

follows:

CD-ROM Drive

250-Mbyte Minimum Hard Drive

128-Mbyte RAM

Parallel Interface Port

Windows®95/98/2000/Me, or WindowsNT®4.0

Network Interface Card or Security Dongle

The software security dongle is used to generate a unique HOSTID for systems without

a network interfacecard. The security dongle is connectedto the PC through the

parallel port interface. It is possibl et o configure a floating network license through the

security dongle. The security dongle allows users to use the sof tware dongle on different

machines by removing and placing the dongle on other machines.