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V1.4.0 COREGEN, VF1.3 Foundation: "Call to Undefined Dynalink"


Record #4099

Product Family:  Software

Product Line:  Coregen

Problem Title:
V1.4.0 COREGEN, VF1.3 Foundation: "Call to Undefined Dynalink"


Problem Description:
Keywords: coregen, core, foundation, dynalink

Urgency: standard

General Description:
COREGen issues an error about a "Call to Undefined Dynalink"
while generating a core.

vhx, xnf and xsf files are generated in the working directory,
but no symbol is generated.  Furthermore, you may be unable
to open up project in Foundation because the .pdf file gets
corrupted.


Solution 1:

This problem has been reported when trying to run Coregen
v1.4.x with Foundation F1.3.  Coregen v1.4.x is tested to
run with Foundation F1.4 only.

The COREGen v1.4.0 install actually copies two files to the Foundation\exe direc
tory:  net2sym.exe and conv_acs.dll.
These two files are only meant to work with Foundation v1.4. The "Dynalink error
" is most likely caused by some
incompatibility with Foundation v1.3.

If the user does not wish to upgrade their Foundation
installation, they can try the following:

  - Select only the XNF netlist in the Output Format options
    in Coregen and generate the core;
  - Run "Import Netlist" from the Foundation schematic editor,
    selecting the XNF file for the core.
  - Delete the .ALR or .ALB file generated for the Coregen
    module during the import process
  - After the netlist has been imported, add two attributes to
    the newly created symbol:

     $EXPORT=NO, and

     $busdelimiter="<".

Note that all this is done automatically in Foundation v1.4



End of Record #4099