AR# 4257: Foundation F1.4: 5200 design with xact give xnfprep error 3701: INIT parameter not supported
AR# 4257
Foundation F1.4: 5200 design with xact give xnfprep error 3701: INIT parameter not supported
説明
Keywords: init=r, XACT, 5200, xnfprep
Urgency: Standard
General Description:
Customers may use F1.4 and Xact step 6.0 for Xc5200 designs. The attribute "INIT=R" has been added to Fllip flop primitives in the F1.4 XC5200 library.
THe M1.4 software does not have a problem with this but XACTStep does. THe customer will see an error similar to the following:
XNFPREP: ERROR 3701: The INIT parameter on symbol `sym_name1' (type = DFF, output signal = sym_name1) is not supported. Upon activation of the Global Reset (GR) signal, all registered elements in the XC5200 family will be reset.
ソリューション
Flip Flops cannot have the INIT attribute when using Pre-M1 Xact implementation tools.
This problem should be fixed for F1.5. The easiest current workaround is to create an XFF file using xnfmerge or translate in the design manager GUI and then edit the .xff file and globally remove the INIT=R attribute.
Alternatively, a user would have to edit each FF primitive in the design (including pushing down into macros suchas counters) For small designs, or designs with few FFs this would be the recommended workaround as the changes would only need to be done once.