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2.1i Spartan2 PAR - Spartan2 placer may crash when placing routed hard macros.


Record #6568

Product Family: Software

Product Line: FPGA Implementation

Product Part: par

Problem Title:

2.1i Spartan2 PAR - Spartan2 placer may crash when placing routed hard macros.


Problem Description:
A case has been seen where the 2.1i Spartan2 placer crashes due to the
presence of a routed hard macro in the design.


Solution 1:

This problem will be fixed in the next release (as yet unnamed) after version 2.1i.

Meanwhile, the problem can be worked around by removing routing information
from Spartan2 Hard Macros.




End of Record #6568 - Last Modified: 06/26/99 13:52

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