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M1.4 EPIC: EPIC may crash on some systems with the autorouter turned on


Record #3182

Product Family: Software

Product Line: FPGA Implementation

Product Part: Epic

Problem Title:
M1.4 EPIC: EPIC may crash on some systems with the autorouter turned on


Problem Description:
Urgency: standard

General Description:

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 happ en during manual placement and modification of CLBs.


Solution 1:

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

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




End of Record #3182 - Last Modified: 05/26/99 07:29

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