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XSimmake 5.2.1, Workview Office 7.3.0 or newer: check/vsm_ngui fail under XSimmake script


Record #2011

Product Family:  Software

Product Line:  FPGA Core

Problem Title:
XSimmake 5.2.1, Workview Office 7.3.0 or newer: check/vsm_ngui fail
under XSimmake script



Problem Description:
Keyword : Workview Office, XACT, Xsimmake, check, vsm, simulation

Urgency : Hot

General Description:
With Workview Office 7.3.0 or greater, check.exe and vsm_ngui.exe fail when
called by the XSimmake script.

The cause of this problem is that Viewlogic has upgraded these two programs
to be 32-bit DOS applications.	Unfortunately, it is impossible for XSIMMAKE,
a 16-bit DOS application, to call these programs directly.


Solution 1:

A patch exists on the Xilinx FTP site that is intended for Workview Office
versions 7.3 and newer.  The file is found at:
ftp://ftp.xilinx.com/pub/swhelp/viewlogic/wvosim73.zip.  The readme.txt
in this patch gives instructions about what to copy and where.

NOTE 1: This patch is NOT for use with Xilinx M1.
NOTE 2: This patch is not required for Intelliflow users.

This patch provides two 16-bit programs, check16.exe and vsm16.exe, which are
simply wrappers that call the new 32-bit versions of CHECK and VSM_NGUI.
Also included in the patch is a new XSIMMAKE.XFW that will call these 16-bit
wrappers.  No other files are needed.

NOTE 3:  This patch was fixed on 11 July 1997 to fix a CPLD/VSM flow problem.



End of Record #2011