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M1.5 EPIC: EPIC may crash on some systems with the autorouter turned on


Record #3182

Product Family:  Software

Product Line:  FPGA Implementation

Problem Title:
M1.5 EPIC: EPIC may crash on some systems with the autorouter turned on


Problem Description:
Keywords: EPIC, autoroute

Urgency: standard


EPIC has been observed to crash on some systems when the Autorouter is turned
on. The circumstances under which this occurs has not been identified yet,
although it has been reported to sometimes happen during manual placement and
modification of CLBs.


Solution 1:

To turn the Autorouter off, select Misc->Post Main Attributes
and deselect the "Automatic Routing" option.

Many EPIC crash problem have been fixed in M1.4 patches.
Download the latest availabe patch.



End of Record #3182