AR# 9098: 3.1i COREGEN - Presence of HU_SET attributes may cause RLOC'ing of CORE Generator modules to fail
AR# 9098
3.1i COREGEN - Presence of HU_SET attributes may cause RLOC'ing of CORE Generator modules to fail
Description
Keywords: rpm, rloc, constraint, accumulator, multiplier, 4K, PDA, FIR filter
Urgency: Hot
General Description: Some CORE Generator modules use HU_SET attributes to define RPM subblocks of related logic when constructing the module. One common application is to use the HU_SET attributes to define separate carry chains within a core.
An unfortunate side effect of the presence of this attribute is that it prevents you from applying RLOCs to the top level of the module to build more larger, more complex RPMs from these CORE Generator modules.
The following cores are known to have this difficulty: VP mult v1.0 twos_comp v1.0 twos_comp v2.0 Sin Cos LUT v1.0 (but NO HU_SETs in v2.0) async FIFO v1.0 async fifo v2.0
解决方案
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If the particular Coregen module you are trying to RLOC contains HU_SET attributes (you will usually see two or more of these), instead of RLOC'ing the main core, you can RLOC the sub-modules individually by specifying RLOC constraints for the component subblocks in a UCF file.
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Another workaround is to simply remove all the HU_SET attribues from the edif file of the core. Then apply the RLOC constraint to the main Coregen module. The constraint can be applied through a UCF file or by using the Xilinx Floorplanner tool.
Note that the impact of removing the HU_SET attributes may reduce the performance because the subhierarchy defined by the HU_SET attributes will no longer exist.
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This problem is scheduled to be fixed in next IP update (D_ip2) scheduled for November 2000.