Achronix ACE Version 5.0 User Manual

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Chapter 6. Revision History

* Updated the

Search view

,

Selection view

, and

Netlist Browser View

to mention new drag-

and-drop support for assignment of placement region constraints

Updated the

Netlist Browser View

to discuss the now-asynchronous tree population to avoid

performance issues with massive designs

Updated

Selection view

to mention new capability to initiate drag-and-drop operations with

branch nodes to use all selected objects (even beyond the current 200) of that type.

Updated the

Options View

and

Implementation Options

areas to mention the new Tcl command

reset impl option

that will reset a given impl option to the current ACE version’s default

value.

* Updated

Loading projects

to mention the reset options prompt when loading projects created

by prior versions of ACE.

Enhancing timing-related data to better represent synchronous-specific concepts (22iHD vs.
22iHP)

* Overhauled the

Critical Paths View

with different data representations for synchronous (HD)

and asynchronous (HP) target devices. HD parts now use a treetable, grouped by clock
domain, and sorted by the criticality of paths. HD parts now have critical path types of
Setup Violated, Setup Met, Hold Violated, and Hold Met. HD parts may have their treetables
filtered by path types.

* Updated Reports:

· Updated

Timing Report

for synchronous parts to describe the separation of ”Critical

Setup (max) Timing Paths” and ”Critical Hold (min) Timing Paths”.

· Added the

Clock Report

· Updated the

Multiprocess Summary Report

explaining differences in the Timing Results

Summary section for asyncronous fabrics

* Updated

Critical Path Diagram view

and the

Analyzing Critical Paths

section to further

clarify HD/HP differences.

Added/updated

User Preferences pages

* added

Placement Regions Preference Page

* added

Tcl Console View Preference Page

* separated the former Floorplanner View Preference Page into two new pages

· simpler

Floorplanner View Colors Preference Page

· significantly updated

Floorplanner View Optimizations Preference Page

with new

settings for preprocessing/caching of route line data and increased granularity of
optimization settings (based upon three levels of design complexity)

Updated

Options view

with the latest

Implementation Options

* added option for Post PnR Buffer Limit
* added option for Post PnR Rewiring
* added option for Package (package selection was previously included in the Target Device)

Added right-click (context) menu support to the

Floorplanner view

,

Netlist Browser view

,

Search

view

, and

Selection view

.

Minor misc updates to the

Floorplanner view

* net highlighting now happens after standard route rendering, but before selected net

rendering

* clock regions and placement regions are now rendered last (on top of all other info as

translucent areas) instead of first as background colors

updated the table of Tcl

Object Type Prefixes

(clock domain is now ’

k:

’)

Support for the Radrunner (RDR1000) device family is no longer included in ACE.

TCL command reference changes:

* updated:

clock info

,

get active project

,

get selection

,

run place

,

save placement

UG001 Rev. 5.0 - 5th December 2012

http://www.achronix.com

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