Is WebPACK 6.1 generally broken, and what of 6.2?

[Chris Carlen]

Hi:

As I understand it, the Impact tool doesn't work with Parallel IV
cables, which my experience confirms.

Also, I had a plethora of other problems when I attempted to upgrade to 6.1:

1. The fitter takes much longer to do its thing, even to fit a single
AND gate takes a lengthy wait.

2. The thing forces me to read HTML reports, which take a long time to
generate. And it seems to have to run some stupid java applet. I
suppose there may be a way to turn this off, but it was very annoying.

3. If I close the HTML report, it removes all the green checkmarks from
the completed processes, and so when I go to configure devices, it has
to fit all over again!

Because of all this, I have simply ignored 6.1 and have been using 5.2,
which works.

The question really is, should I bother to try 6.2 ?


Good day!


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Christopher R. Carlen
Principal Laser/Optical Technologist
Sandia National Laboratories CA USA
crcarle@sandia.gov

 

[Kasper Pedersen]

"Chris Carlen" <crcarle@BOGUS.sandia.gov> wrote in message
news:c20bhk0319e@enews1.newsguy.com...
...snipping problems..

Because of all this, I have simply ignored 6.1 and have been using
5.2,
which works.

The question really is, should I bother to try 6.2 ?

If your design fits and works as expected, I'd say don't get
update-happy just yet.
We have a CoolRunner XPLA design that requires 3 MC more in 6+ than 5.2
(and thus won't fit), even after we went over the settings ensuring they
were identical. Always archive the required software with the project..

Another annoying thing in 6.2 is that apparently they haven't tried the
java on a machine with regional settings set to Danish. Danish uses ','
as decimal separator and '.' as thousands separator, they haven't
handled that, and the java code throws a conversion error at the end of
the fitter run.

/Kasper

 

[Chris Carlen]

Kasper Pedersen wrote:

"Chris Carlen" <crcarle@BOGUS.sandia.gov> wrote in message
news:c20bhk0319e@enews1.newsguy.com...
..snipping problems..

Because of all this, I have simply ignored 6.1 and have been using

5.2,

which works.

The question really is, should I bother to try 6.2 ?


If your design fits and works as expected, I'd say don't get
update-happy just yet.
We have a CoolRunner XPLA design that requires 3 MC more in 6+ than 5.2
(and thus won't fit), even after we went over the settings ensuring they
were identical. Always archive the required software with the project..

Indeed. Good advice.

Thanks for the input!

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Christopher R. Carlen
crobc@earthlink.net
Suse 8.1 Linux 2.4.19