Silicon Explorer Software 3.0 Update 1 Release Notes

• New Features
• Installation
• Outstanding Issues

This update corrects the following problems:

ACT 2

• The A1280 and A1280XL I/O buffers  located in columns 80 and 81 can now be probed correctly.

• TheA42MX16  I/O buffers  located in columns 80 and 81 can now be probed correctly.
• Silicon Explorer's intermittent probing of A42MX36 is now corrected.

• A32100DXV and A32140DXV are now supported.
• Silicon Explorer's intermittent probing of A32200DX and A32300DX is now corrected.

• A54SX16P is now supported.

The steps below describe how to install the Silicon Explorer 3.0 Update 1. It is assumed that you have already installed Silicon Explorer 3.0 software. If this is not the case, please install Silicon Explorer 3.0 first, then follow the directions below to load Update 1.

1. Click on the link below to copy the se30p1pc.exe file to your <Silicon Explorer 3.0>/Scripts/Actel directory. Typically, this directory is located under C:/Program Files/Silicon Explorer 3.0
2. Open a DOS shell and change to your <Silicon Explorer 3.0>/Scripts/Actel directory.
3. Execute the update by typing the following command at the command prompt:
   se30p1pc.exe
   This will overwrite the existing .ini file for each Actel family.

• The 54SX probe file generated by Designer Series R3-1998 and R1-1999 includes a listing for the I/O buffers and HCLK. This means they will appear to be probe-able like all other internal nodes. However, 54SX I/O buffers and HCLK are not designed to be probed and no data will be returned if they are chosen from the list of available nets. This oversight will be corrected in the R2-1999 version of Actel's Designer software.
• This update does not include the Silicon Explorer's self test. The self test will be included in version 4.0 of the Silicon Explorer software.