AR# 3872: COREGEN V1.4.0, FOUNDATION F1.3: "Invalid call to .DLL" error during netlist creation in Foundation F1.3 after installing COREGen v1.4.0
AR# 3872
COREGEN V1.4.0, FOUNDATION F1.3: "Invalid call to .DLL" error during netlist creation in Foundation F1.3 after installing COREGen v1.4.0
説明
Keywords: coregen, invalid call, uninstall, install, dll, conv_acs, windows
Urgency: Hot
General Description: After uninstalling or deinstalling COREGen 1.4, a window with the following error pops up with the following error message when you try to create a netlist in Foundation:
'Program Error - Your program is making an invalid call to a .dll file.'
ソリューション
The 1.4.0 version of COREGen updates the CONV_ACS.DLL in the Foundation tree to fix a bug in functional simulation of certain carry logic modes.
The way the InstallShield Uninstall works is that during installation, all changes that are made, and all files that are installed, are recorded in a log file (DeIsL1.isu usually). When you run an "uninstall" through the "Add/Remove Programs" icon in the Windows Control Panel, Uninstall simply goes through that log file and undoes what the install did.
The V1.4.0 versions of the COREGen uninstall causes a problem when it is run with the F1.3 version of Foundation because the it also deletes CONV_ACS.DLL that was installed along with COREGen.
To restore it:
1. Navigate to the Foundation EXE directory (usually ACTIVE\EXE 2. Rename 'conv_acs.dll' to 'conv_acs.dll.old', if it exists. 3. Rename 'conv_acs.dll.bak' to 'conv_acs.dll'. 4. Then restart Foundation and create the netlist.
The F1.3 version of Foundation is not supported by, and was not tested with, COREGen v1.4.0. Only Foundation F1.4 is supported by COREGen v1.4.0.