1 What's New

1.1. ULTRA300

New Variant ULTRA300 Support

• You can Place and Route your Design into the Fabric

Features Not Yet Supported

• SPI interface

Advanced Complex Bank features

• SPW_IOM
• SER/DES
• HSSL

1.2. IP Catalog - NXCore

Added IPs

• APB I2C (wrapper_apb_i2c v0.0.1)
• AXI DDR2 controller (top_ip_ddr_axi v0.0.1) (NG-MEDIUM only)
• DFI interface DDR2 (ip_dfi_medium v 0.0.1) (NG-MEDIUM only)

Updated IPs

• Spacewire RMAP (SpaceWire RMAP v2.1.0)
• Spacewire RX (Spw RX v1.0.0)

1.3. Python

IMPORTANT

It is mandatory to use the following commands when you instantiate ADC/DAC components

addADCLocation()

• Example: When using NX_DAC_WRAP_U
◦ addDACLocation('top|inst_dac|inst_dac_u', 'DAC1')
• Example: When using NX_DAC_U
◦ addDACLocation('top|inst_dac', 'DAC1')

addDACLocation()

• Example: When using NX_ADC_WRAP_U
◦ addADCLocation('top|inst_adc|inst_adc_u', 'ADC3')
• Example: When using NX_ADC_U
◦ addADCLocation('top|inst_adc', 'ADC3')

2 Known Issues

2.1. Fixed Bugs

• IO Editor interface: Import/Export File in csv/json
• SetSite method in GUI

3 Requirements and Setup

Before installing Impulse, please ensure your system meets the following specifications:

Table 1: System Requirements

3.1. Supported Operating Systems

NanoXplore supports the following operating systems:
• RedHat Enterprise Linux 64-bit:
• CentOS 7
• CentOS 8

Note

If a Linux 64-bit machine is not available, you can install VirtualBox with CentOS 7 or CentOS 8 to use Impulse

Note

WSL on Windows is not supported at this time

Python

Running Impulse requires Python version 3.6 to be preinstalled on a Linux 64-bit machine.

IMPORTANT NOTE

Other Python versions are not supported at this time

3.2. Supported Devices

The following sections list all supported architectures.

Table 2: Supported Architectures

3.3. Compatible Third-Party Tools

Table 3: Third-Party Tools

3.4. Accessing NX Product Licensing

Visit https://support.nanoxplore.com and sign-in.

1. Request to sign a SLA and provide license information
2. Download Impulse
3. Install NX License Daemon