Feature

• NG-ULTRA is now available on NX design suite tools

• Static Timing Analysis (STA):

  • Nanoxplore Design Contraints (NxDC) : The following python methods are compliant with NxMap:

  • reportTiming (from register to register)

  • CreateClock

  • CreateGeneratedClock

  • SetClockGroup

  • SetFalsePath

  • SetMulticyclePath

  • SetMin/MaxDelay

  • SetInput/OutputDelay

  • SetCaseAnalysis

  • SetAnalysisConditions

  • DevelopCKGs

GUI

• New interface

  • Docks

    • Interpreter allow to write python method

    • Dashboard show

    • Selection allow:

      • Selection tab on all element with filter

      • Detailed information on selected elements

      • SetSite management

    • Regions :

      • Show all Regions and Modules

      • Module and region utilization details

      • Create/Resize/Delete Region dynamically

      • Assign Module to a new Region dynamically

• Information given in nxmap can be copy/past from GUI

• Select Instance has been improve:

  • More details on each fabric element are available

  • Dynamic SetSite is available at Preplaced step.

  • Filter selection improve

Constraint

• Constrainpath with DSP : Source and destination registers inside a same DSP can be attached independently by different constrainpath.

• Method exportSites: to export placement constraints for LUTs, DFFs, RAMs, RFs, DSPs, CYs of the design

• Method rejectLowskew: to avoid routing signals into lowskew tree. Can replace NX_BD instanciation.

• Method addBlackBox: to add preplaced IP into design

• NxRegExp update:

p.addFalsePath('getPort(cpt_in[0])','getRegisters(“cpt_in_p_reg\[[0-3]\]”)') => p.addFalsePath(getPort(“cpt_in[0]”),getRegisters(“cpt_in_p_reg['[0-3]']”))

Primitive

• Header: Get NxMap release information in nxLibrary files headers

• SERDES primitives : implement “locked” in generics

Logging

• Module instance reporting: Indicates memories and operators used in each design module

• Infinite loop reporting: Logs give the net + the file and line

• Register optimization: Get information about optimized registers in registers.rpt

• Module and Region in STA: Get the associated region and module in STA detailed path

• DFF reporting : Get type of the DFF (DFF/DFR) in registersSummary.rpt + get number of DFF by primitive (FE/DSP/RAM/PAD)

• Operator in LUT: Adders mapped in LUT appear in reports

Netlist

• Header: Get NxMap release information in a header

Tool

• Saved STA: STA can be saved in .nym projects setting 'SaveTiming' option to 'Yes'

• Large multiplication in ULTRA: compliance with much larger multiplication using CY for adders for better STA optimization

• Compilation in NX library: NX is a forbidden library to compile

NXCore

• NXCore IPs can be update independently of nxmap.

• New interface

• NXScopeV2: New NXScope IP is compliant and can be used in NG-ULTRA

Bug

Constraint

• addMappingDirective for a RAM in DFF : Tool was not able to map a RAM into DFF if infered memory is compiled in a library

• NXScopeV2:

Primitive

Logging

• NX_DFF reporting : NX_DFF primitive in the design is now reported

• addFalsePath all registers, if source or target is empty, number of found registers is *

Netlist

• NX_HSSL_L: netlist generation is now compliant with NX_HSSL_L primitive

• NX_PLL_L: use_pll generic is now mapped

Tool

• Attributes: attributes were ignored in some cases + log during synthesis added

• Differential pad with suffix : pads with suffixes like “_DQS_SWDI” were not able to be configured in differential mode

• DSP registers with asynchronous reset : asynchronous reset DFF cannont be merged in DSP