Problems fixed in EASE 7.4 Revision 8, April 20, 2012

SPR Title Version Description
1366 Backup file restore 7.4.8 Single backup file are not correctly restored
1364 Incomplete label in browser for instance inside HDL file architecture 7.4.8 Label for fuzzy instance does not show referred entity if a direct instantiation is used.
1363 Not all files generated when hierarchy inside HDL file architecture 7.4.8 In some cases hierarchy inside an architecture HDL file is not taken into account when generating code hierarchically.
1355 HDL files are opened in write mode while project is readonly. 7.4.8 Occurs when navigation through the hot errors.
1344 USB Dongle issue 7.4.7 On 64-bit Windows only the first USB dongle is detected
1338 CBN tags not updated 7.4.7 CBN tags are not update when only the net constraint is changed
1334 Allow integer range. 7.4.7 Allow integer range specification in the port/generic/declaration dialogs
1320 Diagram editor font change has delayed effect 7.4.7 Changing diagram editor font name in user settings only works after restarting Ease
1318 VHDL 2008: floating point packages not supported 7.4.7 The VHDL 2008 packages ieee.fixed_float_types_c, ieee.fixed_pkg_c and ieee.float_pkg_c are not supported when VHDL 2008 is selected as VHDL version. The packages are compiled in the library ieee_proposed.
1315 HDL update incorrect 7.4.7 Dependencies were not updated after entity name changes
1314 Port push-up dialog shows incorrect parents 7.4.7 Potential crash when selecting a non parent destination entity for port push-up
1310 Changing object colors has delayed effect. 7.4.6 Changes to object colors in user settings only take effect after restarting Ease.
1308 Net without connections 7.4.6 Copy & paste of CBN tags can result in empty nets causing warning messages
1304 Editing multiple connect by tags 7.4.6 Editing multiple connect by tags propagates the name of the first tag to all others.
1302 use clause for Xilinx unisim component cause syntax errors with ISE synthese 7.4.5 Use clauses like:
use unisim.bufgp.all;

cause an syntax error when the component is instantiated in the architecture.
1301 No way to generate an entity from the command line without generating the architectures 7.4.5 When trying to generate HDL for a single entity using the hdlgen.tcl command line script using the "-output unit" and -single options the architectures are also generated. There is no way to generate only the entity without generation the architectures or (if there is more than one architecture) to generate the entity with only one of the architectures.
1296 Verilog localparam in instance map 7.4.4 Verilog localparam may not appear in the instance map of the instantiating module.
1295 Only one option allowed in the file registration dialog. 7.4.4 Options specified in the arguments field are used as a single options.
1294 Project stays modified 7.4.4 Option show full entity declaration in architecture HDL file causes repeated modifications
1292 Print all diagrams missing diagrams 7.4.4 Print all diagrams in a library does not print hierarchical FSM diagrams
  Added Lattice Diamond to the toolflow. 7.4.3 As title
  Changed Xilinx project file extension. 7.4.3 The Xilinx project file extension changed from .ise to .xise
1290 The user specific project file was not always saved 7.4.3 The user specific project settings (project.xml file) were not always saved when a project was closed. This file contains data like the location of the toplevel marker and the last HTML output directory.
1287 Component library objects are added to the toolflow 7.4.2 All files for packages and entities in a component library are included in the toolflow.
1286 Erroneous duplicate name error 7.4.2 If that same signal name is used in different generate blocks belonging to the same architecture Ease will issue an error about a duplicate signal name.
1285 HDL output written to file without extension when using one file per library option 7.4.2 If no file output file is specified for a library and the use one file per library output generation is set the generated file will not have an extension. This may cause problems when using external tools that determine the language based on the file extension (e.g. .vhd or .v).
1277 When re-importing packages the package uses for these packages will be lost 7.4.1 When re-importing the user package it was first deleted causing deletion of all use clauses referring to the user package. The use clauses are no longer deleted when deleting the user package during re-import.
1272 Allow more flexibility in the clock enable of an FSM 7.4.1 It would be nice if expression where allowed as clock enable expressions instead of only signals.
1271 Not possible to set attribute on component 7.4.1 It is not currently possible to set an attribute for a component. Code placed in the 'Declarations after signals' section will be inserted before the component declarations so referring to the components here will result in errors. We need a new 'Declarations after components' section to deal with this.
1265 Can only import one library from another project at the same time 7.4.1 When importing libraries from another project we need to import them one by one. Sometimes we need to import 10 libraries from the same project and it would be nice if we could do this in a single action.
1264 Support for import of Verilog generate statements 7.4.1 Currently it is not possible to import all Verilog generate statements.
1234 Improve placement components 'testbench skeleton creation' 7.4.1 The monitor and dut components are placed against each other resulting in wires across the components
1221 Configuration don't support architectures in external VHDL files 7.4.1 As title
1194 Add support for external architectures 7.4.1 Please add support for external architectures. When using an architecture HDL file it is not possible to modify the file directly from the simulator/compiler. When you navigate to the 'source' code from external tools you will end up in the generated Ease code and not the real source. It does not make sense to have duplicate code here so it would be nice to have an 'external' architecture.
1191 Place LIBRARY statement within pragmas 7.4.1 When a systhesis pragma is used for a package use the library declaration is written without pragma. This results in warnings when using Synopsis Design Compiler
1125 Add variables to interface list in FSM action properties dialog 7.4.1 Beside port names the interface list in the FSM action properties dialog should also contain information about local signals and variables declared in included text sections.
1028 Generate use clauses in skeleton for architecture HDL file 7.4.1 Please generate the use clauses inside the skeleton header for architecture HDL files.
1027 Generate entity declaration in skeleton for architecture HDL file 7.4.1 Please generate the entity declaration in the skeleton for the architecture HDL file (not in comment). We are using an external editor (SlickEdit) that will do syntax checking and highlighting based on the definitions in the entity (ports/generics).
980 FSM sensitivity lists 7.4.1 It does not appear to be possible to add internal user-defined signals to the sensitivity lists of FSM's. Is there any way that this coud be incorporated through a series of dialogues ? This would have to take into account the HDL output style so may be more complex than initially thought. This is required to elminate warnings about incomplete sensitivity lists during synthesis.
978 Moving up the design hierarchy 7.4.1 When moving up the design hierarchy by double clicking the white space in a block diagram, it would be useful to highlight the block that you've just come up from, perhaps by leaving it selected.
877 Improve error message for duplicate names 7.4.1 When a net has the same name as an entity, the verification reports that the netname is already declared in this region. The report should also contain where (entity) the name is also declared.
33 FSM imcluded texts will never be on the sensitivity list of the state machine 7.4.1 You can define FSM included texts (signal declarations), but these signals can not be put in the sensitivity list of the state machine.
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