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DDARN2
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6 years ago

Is there a maximum number of interfaces allowed in the Component Editor?

When I am adding interfaces and signals to a component in the component editor, I can save the component and then reopen it and many of the interfaces I defined are gone. This also happens when there...
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sstrell
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6 years ago

When you say you "edited the component and continued adding", do you mean that you right-clicked the custom component in the IP Catalog and selected Edit? That's the way to continue updating an existing custom component using the graphical tool. From your description, it sounds like when you are "editing" a component, you are actually starting over and creating a new _hw.tcl file that is overwriting the old one.

Recent versions of Platform Designer create backup _hw.tcl files (I think they are named _hw.tcl~). Have you checked these backups and compared them to the current _hw.tcl?

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DDARN2
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6 years ago

Hello, I was only using the "Edit" option from the right-click. The tool would (seemingly) randomly remove interfaces that I had already saved to the *_hw.tcl file from the previous exit.

Thanks,

Eric