ISE 8.1: Process "Map" failed

Aug 22, 2006 6 Replies

Hi all,



I came back from vacation yesterday, and full of ideas I started to work where I left before the holidays. The first thing that happens is that I can't map my design anymore. The vhdl is exactly the same as earlier, and the only difference in the map report is the lines regarding related and unrelated logic below:



Design Summary



-------------- Number of errors: 0 Number of warnings: 130 Logic Utilization: Number of Slice Flip Flops: 7,351 out of 21,504 34% Number of 4 input LUTs: 5,267 out of 21,504 24% Logic Distribution: Number of occupied Slices: 5,505 out of 10,752 51% Number of Slices containing only related logic: 5,505 out of



5,505 100% Number of Slices containing unrelated logic: 0 out of
5,505 0% *See NOTES below for an explanation of the effects of unrelated logic Total Number 4 input LUTs: 6,045 out of 21,504 28% Number used as logic: 5,267 Number used as a route-thru: 310 Number used as Shift registers: 468

Number of bonded IOBs: 132 out of 456 28% IOB Flip Flops: 5 IOB Master Pads: 55 IOB Slave Pads: 55 IOB Dual-Data Rate Flops: 26 Number of Block RAMs: 42 out of 56 75% Number of MULT18X18s: 40 out of 56 71% Number of GCLKs: 5 out of 16 31% Number of DCMs: 1 out of 8 12% Number of BSCANs: 1 out of 1 100%



Number of RPM macros: 26 Total equivalent gate count for design: 3,057,923 Additional JTAG gate count for IOBs: 6,336 Peak Memory Usage: 266 MB



Following the design summary is a note regarding related logic.



In my old map report none of this related logic stuff is present. But I can't really understand why the mapper fails due to this since none of the logic is unrelated.



I am pretty sure that my code hasn't changed during my vacation. Does ISE know that there is a new version out and it wants me to upgrade? ;-)



Has anyone experienced this before?



Regards Johan


----------------------------------------------- Johan Bernspång, xjohbex@xfoix.se Research engineer Swedish Defence Research Agency - FOI Division of Command & Control Systems Department of Electronic Warfare Systems www.foi.se Please remove the x's in the email address if replying to me personally. -----------------------------------------------

Does it really fail? or have you misinterpreted what it said, because it looks ok... The related logic is not a concern in this case as far as I can see. ISE always adds an asterisk and a note about related logic IIRC. Ben

Yes, it really fails without any explanation at all. No errors nothing... Anyway, I created a new project and copied the sources to that. Guess what, it works again... For some reason the problem was project oriented, and I can't explain that.

/Johan

Benjam> Does it really fail? or have you misinterpreted what it said, because it

----------------------------------------------- Johan Bernspång, xjohbex@xfoix.se Research engineer Swedish Defence Research Agency - FOI Division of Command & Control Systems Department of Electronic Warfare Systems www.foi.se Please remove the x's in the email address if replying to me personally. -----------------------------------------------

Hmm, ISE is fantastic for bizzare things like that.. If it happens again click on Project -> Clean Up Project Files... This usually removes all the junk from your project folder. Ben

Well, I tried that too, but it didn't help in this case. It seems like the problem was connected to the project file itself... Beats me...

/Johan

Benjam> Hmm, ISE is fantastic for bizzare things like that..

----------------------------------------------- Johan Bernspång, xjohbex@xfoix.se Research engineer Swedish Defence Research Agency - FOI Division of Command & Control Systems Department of Electronic Warfare Systems www.foi.se Please remove the x's in the email address if replying to me personally. -----------------------------------------------

Hello Johan,

I had the same map error. Only thing to do is to create a complete new project and start all over again.

Regards,

Jeroen

"Johan Bernspång" schreef in bericht news:ece9jc$mok$ snipped-for-privacy@mercur.foi.se...

That is what I did to solve the problem. I am still curious how the problem started though.

/Johan

Jeroen Tenbult wrote:

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