Release v3.2 b27
Changes
- Bookmarks:
- Added "Show/Hide Connectivity" button.
- Added "Connectivity Report" dialog to aid in tracing logic.
- Path Finder:
- Added "Show Previous" and "Show Next" buttons for highlighting logic path to previous/next chain cell.
- Added "Include Primary" option for including primary input pins in the cone-of-logic.
- Added "Include Feedback" option for including nets from the selected scan cell's outputs back to the cone-of-logic.
- User's Guide: Updated "Path Finder Tab" and "Bookmarks Tab" sections.
Release v3.2 b26
Changes
- Bookmarks: Added "Show Common" button.
- Path Finder: Changed "Highlight" to "Show" in button labels.
- User's Guide: Updated "Path Finder Tab", "Bookmarks Tab", and "Top Failing Cell" sections.
- Top Failing Cell Report: Fixed missing data in "Fails H", "Patterns H", "Fails L", and "Patterns L" columns issue.
Release v3.2 b25
Changes
- Path Finder: Added "Highlight Cone" and "Highlight Driver" buttons.
Release v3.1 b24
Changes
- Main Menu: Removed "Delete Project" from the Projects menu. Use "Manage Project Repositories" instead.
- Column Control: Added column control to all tables, mainly for making long strings fully visible.
- Top Failing Cell Report:
- Added "Fails H", "Patterns H", "Fails L", and "Patterns L" columns.
- Added numeric sorters to "Failures", "Cell", "Fails H", and "Fails L" columns.
- Replaced "Save As..." button with "Save Report As...", which saves table data in report format.
- Added "Save CVS As..." button, which saves table data in comma-separated-value format.
- "Save Report As..." and "Save CVS As..." save table data in sorted order now.
- "Save Report As..." and "Save CVS As..." remember where table data was last saved now.
- DEF Parser: DIEAREA defined as a polygon is parsed correctly now.
Release v3.1 b20
Changes
- Failure Log Import: Fixed an issue introduced in b19 that prevented failure log import.
- TWB Shared Libraries: Updated to use the latest TWB libraries.
- LEF/DEF Parser: Improved both LEF and DEF parsers.
- User's Guide: Improved Data->Test Results->TWB Workbench section.
Release v3.1 b19
Changes
- FlexLM License: Corrected FlexLM license version issue. Now looks for version 3.0 instead of 3.1.
- TWB Data Source: Added versions 5.4 and 5.5 to list of supported TWB project versions.
Release v3.1 b18
Changes
- STIL Import: Added support for having scan chain definitions in a seperate STIL file to support customers that use Cadence tools.
Release v3.1 b11
Changes
- JavaDB/Derby: Added update files for rev 2 to rev 3.
Release v3.1 b10
Changes
- User's Guide: Updated for DM v3.1
Release v3.1 b9
Changes
- Main Toolbar: "Results" has been renamed "Failures".
- View Menu: The View menu's "Find Cmponents" and "Find Nets" items have been removed (see Search tab below). Undo/Redo/Clear Highlights and Bookmark items have been added to the View menu.
- Design Information Replaced: The "Design Information" tree that was at the left of the main DM window has been replaced by a tabbed pane.
- Tabs Moved: The tabbed pane at the bottom of the main DM window has been replaced by tabs at the left of the window. Also, the "All Results" tab has been renamed "Failure Logs" and the "Sets" tab has been eliminated.
- Path Finder: The "Path Finder" tab has been added at the left of the main DM window. Selecting a 'cell' in the Design View will populate the Path Finder tab. Selecting an input or output in the Path Finder will highlight that net in the Design View. Control-click will clear that net's highlighting. Double-click will highlight that net's attached cells.
- Search: The "Search" tab has been added at the left of the main DM window and replaces both View menu "Find Cmponents" and "Find Nets" items. Clicking and dragging in the Design View with the shift key pressed will fill in the search coordinates for you.
- Bookmarks: The "Bookmarks" tab has been added at the left of the main DM window and replaces the "Bookmarked Cells" node that used to be in the "Design Information" tree at the left of the window. Also added the ability to group bookmarks and to bookmark both cells and nets. After highlighting cells/nets in the Design View using Path Finder, select the "Bookmark Highlighted Design Elements" button in the Design View's toolbar or the View menu's "Bookmark" item to bookmark those selected elements. Supplying a group name will add a bookmark by that name to the Bookmark tab.
- Failure Logs: The "Failure Logs" tab has been added at the left of the main DM window and replaces the "All Results" tab that used to be at the bottom of the window. Also added the "Hide Duplicates" button to hide identical failure logs.
- Defect Candidates: The "Defect Candidates" tab has been added at the left of the main DM window and replaces the "Defect Candidates" tab that used to be at the bottom of the window.
- Design Info: The "Design Info" tab has been added at the left of the main DM window and replaces the "Design Information" tree that used to be at the left of the window. Also, the "Bookmarked Cells" node has been removed from the tree and replaced by the "Bookmarks" tab.
- Design View Toolbar: Buttons have been added to the Design View toolbar to support undo/redo/clear highlights, creating bookmarks, and showing the view finder.
- Instance Details: The panel below the Design View that used to contain the instance details, zoom slider, color legend, and view finder has been removed and replaced by Design View toolbar functionality. Instance details are now displayed in the Path Finder tab, zoom is controled by "Zoom In" and "Zoom Out" toolbar buttons, and the view finder is controled by the "Show View Finder" toolbar button. The color legend has been eliminated.
- Coordinate Information: 'Click' location, cursor location, and visible extent information has been added to the bottom of the Design View.
- Detail View: Clicking and dragging in the Design View with the Ctrl key pressed, instead of the right-mouse-button click and drag, defines the portion of the design that the Detail View shows.
- Advanced Resolver: Added tabs to the "Work Space" area. The "Run Script" tab displays the script that will be executed when the "Test Resolve" or "Run Full Resolve" button is pressed, which provides the same capability as before. The "Basic Edit" tab adds the ability to do basic edits without haveing to write a script. Basic edits can be combined by adding or deleting functions as needed. The "Run Script" tab shows the script that is automatically generated by the basic edit functions and can be edited to customize the outcome.
- Improved LEF/DEF Checking: The "Select Design Files" page of the "Project Create" wizard does a better job of reporting LEF/DEF file errors, including reporting the line number that the error was found, when the "Check Files Now" feature is used.
- Select Files Dialog: The "Select File(s) and/or Directory(ies)" dialog used by the "Project Create" wizard now remembers the directory that was last used to select from.