Release Notes For ModelSim Altera 10.

4d

Dec 29 2015
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Index to Release Notes

* [2]Key Information
* [3]Release Announcements in 10.4d
* [4]Base Product Specifications in 10.4d
* [5]Compatibility Issues with Release 10.4d
* [6]User Interface Defects Repaired in 10.4d
* [7]SystemVerilog Defects Repaired in 10.4d
* [8]VHDL Defects Repaired in 10.4d
* [9]General Enhancements in 10.4d
* [10]User Interface Enhancements in 10.4d
* [11]SystemVerilog Enhancements in 10.4d
* [12]Coverage Enhancements in 10.4d
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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 10.4d

* [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 10.4d

* [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 10.4d

SystemVerilog Compatibility
* dvt80536 - (source) It is not permitted to change the protected
status of an existing design unit by recompiling it, it must be
deleted from the library and then recompiled.
* dvt79480 - (results) Fixed a bug which results in reversed bit
connections, when a concat expression is passed to an unpacked port
* dvt75654 - (results) SDF back-annotation now works with anonymous
Non-ansi type source and destination ports.

VHDL Compatibility
* dvt75261 - (source) If a locally static range of the first form
(A'RANGE or A'REVERSE_RANGE) was used as the index range in an
array subtype indication, there was no check that the range bounds
were compatible with the index subtype of the base array type. This
has been fixed.

General Compatibility
* [nodvtid] - (results) There are multiple VPI changes to the class
model to align it more closely to the LRM, and to make it more
useable. Class object names are now aligned to the GUI names. More
vpi_handle and vpi_iterate queries have been implemented, affecting
among other things vpiClassTypespec, vpiClassObj, and vpiClassDefn
objects. Queries for file and line information on class objects
will return an error, as these objects are not anchored by
definition to the source code.

Coverage Compatibility
* dvt28804 - (results) The -checkinputs switch is added in vcover
merge to skip and report corrupted UCDB input files.
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User Interface Defects Repaired in 10.4d

* dvt79540 - If the -precision option is specified in a user defined
radix, the option will not be listed in the "radix list" results
and does not get saved in the wave.do file. This results in the
user define radix not being restored correctly. This issue has been
resolved.
* dvt79542 - Precision values grater than 17 are not currently
supported in the user defined radix. Attempts to set a precision
greater than 17 will now return an error message.
* dvt80314 - Hovering the mouse cursor over an inactive (not in
process) class method scope can lead to a crash. This issue has
been resolved.
* dvt80772 - Help command anomalies have been fixed.
* dvt82347 - Problem loading Tcllib package stooop in vsim has been
resolved.
* dvt82883 - Selected text in the Source window containing certain
combinations of characters can cause the GUI to crash. This issue
 has been resolved.
* dvt35002 - Fixed crash when expanding cover group in Objects
window.
* dvt80534 - Attempting to open an assert property statement for
viewing sometimes resulted in a fatal error. This issue has been
resolved.
* dvt75988 - Fixed a crash in the UI that sometimes occurs during a
restart or load of a new design.
* dvt75360 - Fixed a crash in the UI when selecting or expanding
certain kinds of objects in the Locals window.
* dvt18485 - The Search bar in each window is now persistent. This
means if a Search bar is open within a window when the application
is closed, the next time the application is launched and the window
opened, the Search bar will be visible as well.
* dvt19881 - Using the Find feature in the Preference Dialog box will
now search the entire contents, no longer requiring the that the
tree be expanded first.
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SystemVerilog Defects Repaired in 10.4d

* dvt79480 - (results) Fixed a bug which results in reversed bit
connections, when a concat expression is passed to an unpacked port
* dvt80393 - Specifying multiple comma-delimited extensions via the
"vsim -svext" switch would result in an error. This issue has been
fixed.
* dvt80536 - (source) It is not permitted to change the protected
status of an existing design unit by recompiling it, it must be
deleted from the library and then recompiled.
* dvt75654 - (results) SDF back-annotation now works with anonymous
Non-ansi type source and destination ports.
* [nodvtid] - Vsim crashed with array index references in an inline
randomization constraint where the index variable was defined
inside a begin..end block.
* dvt83603 - Using a parameter array index reference as the offset in
an indexed slice range could lead to an internal error like:
# ** Error: test.sv(5): Questa has encountered an unexpected
internal error: ../../src/vlog/vgencode.c(212).
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VHDL Defects Repaired in 10.4d

* dvt79538 - The in some case, if a VHDL block has unconstrained
output ports The error
# ** Fatal: (vsim-3420) Array lengths do not match. Left is 0 (0 to
3). Right is (UNDEFINED) (UNCONSTRAINED ARRAY).
could occur.
* dvt79119 - The "change" command would not register changes in the
WLF file if -vhdlvariablelogging and/or -accessobjdebug was also
present for the vsim session. Also, WLF file lookup of DOIDs is
case-insensitive to VHDL access type names.
* dvt76973 - Variable (including protected type data member variable)
whose type was array of access to record, could cause a simulator
crash if the vsim command "vsim" was used to load another (or same)
design during the same session of the GUI.
* dvt75261 - (source) If a locally static range of the first form
(A'RANGE or A'REVERSE_RANGE) was used as the index range in an
array subtype indication, there was no check that the range bounds
were compatible with the index subtype of the base array type. This
has been fixed.
* dvt79780 - Logging an alias to a signal that is of a resolved
 composite type would crash the simulator.
* dvt80970 - If a instance of a generic package is made directly
visible with a via a use statement. Multiple references to the
package will result in the error
** Error: fails.vhd(4): (vcom-1078) Identifier "pkg" is not directly visible. Po
tentially visible declarations are:
work.pkg in library work (package)
work.pkg at pkg.vhd(1) (declaration)

* dvt80408 - Having an entity whose name is 200 character long or

longer could cause the following error during optimization.
** Fatal: (vopt-8) Problem while reading data file
"/export/home/designtree/work/top_opt/vopt4km4ma".
** Error: (vopt-2064) Compiler back-end code generation process terminated with
code 2.

* dvt81528 - Occasionally vcom, vopt, or vlog, could crash

unexpectedly because of the command line arguments. Slightly
changing the argument number or order can work around the problem.
* dvt81757 - Fixes crashes at design load time as wells on commands
that work on bits of a composite port like driver, add log, add
wave, and other similar commands. The crash required that the
actual connected to the port be a non-static expression.
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General Enhancements in 10.4d

* [nodvtid] - (results) There are multiple VPI changes to the class
model to align it more closely to the LRM, and to make it more
useable. Class object names are now aligned to the GUI names. More
vpi_handle and vpi_iterate queries have been implemented, affecting
among other things vpiClassTypespec, vpiClassObj, and vpiClassDefn
objects. Queries for file and line information on class objects
will return an error, as these objects are not anchored by
definition to the source code.
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User Interface Enhancements in 10.4d

* dvt83067 - The Class Type column is now visible by default in the
Covergroup WIndow.
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SystemVerilog Enhancements in 10.4d

* dvt83013 - The protected state of a design unit can now be changed
by recompiling. In the past this seemed to work with Verilog but
was intentionally not allowed with VHDL. Now, both languages allow
this, and the implementation has been made more uniform and
correct.
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Coverage Enhancements in 10.4d

* dvt28804 - (results) The -checkinputs switch is added in vcover
merge to skip and report corrupted UCDB input files.