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 1.5i Virtex Map/PAR - Clock net LOC constraints may be ignored if IPAD to BUFG connection is used. 
 
 Record #6492
Product Family:  Software 
 
Product Line:  FPGA Implementation 
 
Product Part:  map 
 
Product Version:  1.5i 
 
Problem Title:
  
1.5i Virtex Map/PAR - Clock net LOC constraints may be ignored if IPAD to BUFG connection is
used. 
 
 
 
Problem Description: 
For the following configuration: 
 
        IPAD------------------BUFG-------- 
            	       NET_X 
 
The .ucf NET constraint: 
 
      NET "NET_X" LOC=Y11 ; 
 
is not handled successfully by the Map and PAR tools in version 1.5i. 
 
Map incorrectly maps to a standard IOB rather than GCLKIOB and writes a 
LOC constraint into the .pcf file for the GCLKIOB  site. PAR incorrectly ignores
this invalid LOC constraint, so that there is no feedback to the user that the original
.ucf constraint was ignored. 
 
 
Solution 1: 
 
This problem is fixed in version 2.1i. 
 
Meanwhile, the following configurations will work with the net constraint: 
 
      IPAD----------IBUFG-----------BUFG 
        	   NET_X 
 
      IPAD----------BUFGP 
        	   NET_X 
 
 
 
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