7.2.4 Migration Libraries

In addition to the Actel libraries, Actel provides a set of migration libraries. These libraries contain cores supported in earlier versions of the Designer Series software and cores possibly needed to retarget designs from a different Actel family. If you are upgrading from a previous version of Designer and you have existing Actel designs, you must use the migration libraries. Actel does not recommend using the migration libraries on new designs.

The Powerview software uses a viewdraw.ini file to access the Actel libraries. Actel has provided template viewdraw.ini files in the $ALSDIR/lib/wv/<act_fam> directories that you can use. If you manually add the paths, they must be the first paths specified in the directories section of your viewdraw.ini file.

To access the migration libraries, add the following lines to your viewdraw.ini file:

dir [p] .
dir [rm] $ALSDIR/lib/wv/<act_fam>/cells (ACTELCELLS)
dir [rm] $ALSDIR/lib/wv/<act_fam>/migrate (ACTELCELLS)
dir [rm] $ALSDIR/lib/wv/<act_fam>/migrate (ACTELMIGRATE)
dir [rm] $ALSDIR/lib/wv/<act_fam>/migrate (ACTELMODELS)
dir [rm] $ALSDIR/lib/wv/smartgen (SMARTGEN)
dir [rm] $ALSDIR/lib/wv/sim (ACTELSIM)
dir [rm] $WDIR/lib/builtin (builtin)

For example, to configure Powerview to use the ACT3 family library, replace <act_fam> with act3 in the lines above.