Release Notes For ModelSim Altera 10.

4c

Aug 12 2015
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Index to Release Notes

* [2]Key Information
* [3]Release Announcements in 10.4c
* [4]Base Product Specifications in 10.4c
* [5]Compatibility Issues with Release 10.4c
* [6]General Defects Repaired in 10.4c
* [7]User Interface Defects Repaired in 10.4c
* [8]SystemVerilog Defects Repaired in 10.4c
* [9]VHDL Defects Repaired in 10.4c
* [10]SystemC Defects Repaired in 10.4c
* [11]User Interface Enhancements in 10.4c
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Key Information
* The following lists the supported platforms:
+ win32aloem - Windows 7, Windows 8
+ linuxaloem - RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6, SUSE Linux
 Enterprise Server 10 and 11
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Release Announcements in 10.4c

* [nodvtid] -
[10.4] Support for Windows XP and Windows Vista has been
discontinued.
[10.4] Licensing Information
There is no licensing change between release 10.3 and 10.4.
However if you are migrating to 10.4 from a release like 10.2 and
older, please note the following:
+ Starting 10.3, it uses FLEXnet v11.11.1.1. The vendor daemons
and lmgrd that are shipped with this release will be FLEXnet
version 11.11.1.1.
+ For floating licenses it will be necessary to verify that the
vendor daemon (i.e., mgcld) and the license server (i.e.,
lmgrd) have FLEXnet versions equal to or greater than
11.11.1.1. If the current FLEXnet version of your vendor
daemon and lmgrd are less than 11.11.1.1 then it will be
necessary to stop your license server and restart it using the
vendor daemon and lmgrd contained in this release.
+ If you use node locked licenses you don't need to do anything.
[10.3b] OVL is upgraded to v2.8.1.
[10.3b] The VHDL OSVVM (Open Source VHDL Verification Methodology)
library, sources and documentation have been updated to version
2014.01. Dependency checks in vopt and vsim will force
recompilation of designs that use the osvvm library. If
optimization is performed using vopt, the optimizer will
automatically generate new optimized design units. Without the
optimization step, vsim will detect dependency errors.
[10.3] Support for RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4.0 has been
discontinued.
[10.2] Support for Solaris SPARC and Solaris x86 has been
discontinued. All Solaris OS platforms are not supported.
[10.2] Support for RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 3.0 and Novell
SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLES) 9 has been discontinued.
[10.1] Support for GCC versions
gcc-4.1.2-sunos510/gcc-4.1.2-sunos510x86 has been discontinued.
[10.0] Support for Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 has been discontinued.
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Base Product Specifications in 10.4c

* [nodvtid] -
[Supported Platforms]
Linux RHEL 5 x86/x86-64
Linux RHEL 6 x86/x86-64
Linux RHEL 7 x86/x86-64
Linux SLES 10 x86/x86-64
Linux SLES 11 x86/x86-64
Windows 7 x86/x64
Windows 8 x86/x64
[Supported GCC Compilers (for SystemC)]
gcc-4.7.4-linux/gcc-4.7.4-linux_x86_64
gcc-4.5.0-linux/gcc-4.5.0-linux_x86_64
gcc-4.3.3-linux/gcc-4.3.3-linux_x86_64
gcc-4.2.1-mingw32vc9
[OVL (shipped with product)]
v2.8.1
[VHDL OSVVM (shipped with product)]
 v2014.07
[Licensing]
FLEXnet v11.11.1.1
MSL v2013_3
MGLS v9.10_7.2
PCLS v9.10.7.2
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Compatibility Issues with Release 10.4c

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General Defects Repaired in 10.4c

* dvt78556 - When the path to the tmp directory (e.g. /tmp on linux)
is redirected to a path that contains spaces, various errors can
occur that are not obviously related to the tmp directory. The tmp
directory is more commonly redirected on the Windows platform.
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User Interface Defects Repaired in 10.4c

* dvt67302 - The "edit" command and other uses of the
PrefMain(Editor) setting failed to correctly invoke the user
specified editor application whenever the application pathname
contains spaces.
* dvt63029 - Under rare circumstances, single stepping a simulation
will hang the simulator requiring the user to 'kill' the simulation
in order to gain control. This issue has been resolved.
* dvt78368 - Use of -g command-line option reports a GUI startup
error. This issue has been resolved.
* dvt78370 - Windows only: On invoking "questasim.exe -do file.do",
the "-do" option is ignored resulting in the file being opened in
the source window. This issue has been resolved.
* dvt69368 - If a process is labeled with the same name as it's
inclosing architecture, a breakpoint within the process will not
display the location correctly when the simulation stops. This
issue has been resolved.
* dvt34881 - The list of recent Directories and recent Projects under
the File menu can now be adjusted to list as many locations as the
user wants. Two new preference settings have been added:
PrefMain(recentDirectoryLimit) and PrefMain(recentProjectLimit).
The default is no 8 entries for each list. The pull down menu
entries will also display the full path when hovering over the
particular item. This will make identifying long path names easier.
* dvt68664 - Export Image for the Wave window would hang the user
interface and the desktop. This issue has been resolved.
* dvt67339 - Protected design units would not be displayed in the
Library window of the GUI, even though they are listed when using
the "vdir" command.
* dvt79321 - When using -batch mode, continuation lines in a "do"
file are not interpreted correctly. This issue has been resolved.
* dvt77355 - When the GUI opens with a small initial window size, the
application will hang until the window size is made larger. This
issue has been resolved.
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SystemVerilog Defects Repaired in 10.4c

* [nodvtid] - In some cases redefined macros were not overwriting
previous macro definitions.
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 VHDL Defects Repaired in 10.4c
* dvt79007 - A package-declared signal used as an element of an array
begin associated via individual association with a class signal
procedure formal, where the procedure is declared in a place that
is not the package, could cause a crash.
* dvt79195 - Type conversion from a floating point value to an
integer value of type INTEGER would incorrectly report an error if
the value was the legal value of -2147483648; likewise for
2147483647.
* dvt78557 - Reference to an element or slice of a signal array whose
elements are an interface type could result in a fatal error with
the following message:
** Fatal: (SIGSEGV) Bad handle or reference.

* dvt79119 - The "change" command would work if attempted on an

access object or member of such.
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SystemC Defects Repaired in 10.4c

* dvt78678 - Fixed sccom leaving object files in the current working
directory on a compile failure.
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User Interface Enhancements in 10.4c

* dvt27751 - Support two new variations for the "bp" command. Allows
specifying the line-number only in the command. The command will
use the source file of the current context. For example:
bp 57

The "bp" command will also accept the common gdb syntax of
"file-name:line-number", for example:
bp dut.sv:57

Here is the full usage description for the "bp" command:

# Usage:
# HDL breakpoints:
# bp location [options] [{command ...}]
# location: {[filename] line_number | filename:line_number | in task_or_fcn}
# options: [-id id#] [-label label] [-disable] [-uvm] [[-inst region]...]
# [-cond {condition_expression}] [-appendinst]
#
# C breakpoints:
# bp -c location [options]
# location: {function_name | line_number | filename:line_number | *0xhex_addr
ess}
# options: [-disable] [[-inst {systemc_module_instance_name}]...]
# [-cond {condition_expression}] [-appendinst]
#
# Information:
# bp [-query filename [line_number [line_number]]]

* dvt30446 - Two enhancements have been added to the run & step
commands, reporting of the simulation time and delta when the run
operation completes, and reporting the run status when the run
operation completes. These reports are enabled by setting the
preference variable PrefMain(noRunTimeMsg) and
PrefMain(noRunStatusMsg) respectively to 0. Here is an example of
these reports:
VSIM 1> run 105
VSIM 2> set PrefMain(noRunTimeMsg) 0
# 0
VSIM 3> run 112
# Time: @217 ns 0
VSIM 4> set PrefMain(noRunStatusMsg) 0
# 0
VSIM 5> run 100
# Time: @317 ns 0
# Status: ready end
VSIM 6> set PrefMain(noRunTimeMsg) 1
# 1
VSIM 7> run 50
# Status: ready end
VSIM 8> set PrefMain(noRunStatusMsg) 1
# 1
VSIM 9> run 55
VSIM 10>

* dvt9844 - The "when" command has been enhanced to support repeating

time breakpoints. The -repeat switch works with "when" breakpoint
expressions involving time ($now). Normally expressions involving
$now will only trigger once. With the -repeat option the "when"
breakpoint will reestablish the breakpoint when triggered so that
it will fire again for the next time period.