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17 years ago

Resource origin locations for ID Logic Locked partitions?

I've just upgraded from Q2 v7.1 to Q2 v7.2 SP3. The project I just completed was a Bottom Up ID design into a Stratix 2 where the Project Leader wanted me to remain in v7.1 until completed. The desig...
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17 years ago

What I mean by resource origin location are the X#_Y# for LABS, M512, M4K, etc. that one can get from the old FloorPlanner by just zooming in some and placing the pointer on the upper left corner of any one. I've just tried again looking through the menu selections in ChipPlanner to see how to turn on such information to view and its just not there.

I use (used) the location information from FloorPlanner to plan the locations of my Incremental Design Partitions in the Bottom Up flow. As far as I can see, when work on designing subpartitions, ChipPlanner leaves one in the dark. (Why?)

I gotta tell you, the more I use ChipPlanner the less I like it. It doesn't jive with the other tools like the PinPlanner, it crashes randomly bringing down the entire Q2 system with it and it doesn't have any of the basic information the FloorPlanner did.

(I still have to view ChipPlanner as an unfinished tool that was pushed out too soon.)