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XNFMERGE: how does it recognize what is a primitive vs. what is a macroin an XNF file?


Record #1954

Product Family:  Software

Product Line:  FPGA Core

Problem Title:
XNFMERGE:  how does it recognize what is a primitive vs. what is a
macroin an XNF file?



Problem Description:
Keywords: XNF macro primitive SYM

Urgency:  standard

General description:

How does XNFMERGE recognize what is a primitive
vs. what is a macro in an XNF file?


Solution 1:


XNFMERGE has built-in knowledge of which DEVICE types (in the
context of an XNF SYM record) are primitives, and which are
macros.  If a SYM record contains a DEVICE record that
references something other than an element in its known
primitive table, XNFMERGE assumes that this is a macro, and
expects to find an XNF file for it.



End of Record #1954