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Altera_Forum
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18 years ago

Are QII7.1 Symbol files mandatory ?

Im struggling to rework a simple MaxII design I created two years ago ....and I first found a bug in the first hour of working ...support was good got back and told me the next(new) Serv Pack solved ...
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Altera_Forum
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18 years ago

Not mad at you Avatar ...I did Palasm->ABEL->CUPL + a bit of TCL. I built a graphics compiler for DSP stuff and grew to respect the circumspect of graphics ...but this crud drives me nuts ...I discovered the same bug AGAIN in QIISp0...and am now trying to download 650MBytes of new bloatware to be saved (?) by Sp1.

In QII7.1SP0 the bug on creating sym files was more extensive than just port alterations on the symbol image !! If ANY change is done in an underlying Graphics design file the new generation/update of symbol file from the design file window simply zeros the I/O on the updated block file in the next level up !!

How could they miss this gross error and release V7.1 !!

They gotta start getting high level views when they design biggie PLDs ...so Im for graphics and expert system foundations on this gear .... A lot better than the old hot PALs huh !