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SYN2XNF: Use of -s option causes creation of EXT records, XNFPREP Error 3527
Record #453
Product Family: Software
Product Line: Synopsys
Product Part: syn2xnf
Product Version: 3.5.0
Problem Title:
SYN2XNF: Use of -s option causes creation of EXT records, XNFPREP Error 3527
Problem Description:
Syn2xnf -s creates external "EXT" records causing XNFPREP to fail. Syn2xnf -s (sub)
is supposed to create a hierarchical block (without any IOs) but it still creates EXT records
for .sxnf file written by Synopsys FPGA Compiler. The XNF format .xnf and .xff files have
EXT records. This will cause XNFPREP to give errors related to pads connected to internal
nodes.
Solution 1:
The cause of the problem is that SYN2XNF -s only works on EDIF format file (which implies Design Com
piler). If the design is written out as a .sxnf file, there will still be EXT records written into i
t.
The only solution is to manually remove the EXT records at the end of the .sxnf
files generated by Synopsys; or write out an edif format file instead.
End of Record #453 - Last Modified: 12/22/95 13:30 |
