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M1.5/2.1i: EPIC/FPGA Editor: Displays edge decoders for Spartan and SpartanXL devices.


Record #5637

Product Family: Software

Product Line: FPGA Implementation

Product Part: Epic

Product Version: 1.5is1

Problem Title:
M1.5/2.1i: EPIC/FPGA Editor: Displays edge decoders for Spartan and SpartanXL devices.


Problem Description:
urgency: standard

problem desription:

In EPIC, you can see/edit wide-edge decoders for the spartan and spartanXL devices despite the fact that the documentation says that spartan and spartanxl devices do not have wide edge decoders.


Solution 1:

The spartan and spartanXL devices had the EPIC templated copied from the 4k series. The existance of the wide-edge decoders in the EPIC tool is a bug.
However, according to datasheets and documentation, the decoders should not be there,




End of Record #5637 - Last Modified: 07/13/99 08:41

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