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End-User License Agreement: You can print a copy of the End-User License Agreement from: www.mentor.com/terms_conditions/enduser.cfm. _______________________________________________________________________ * How to Get Support ModelSim Intel FPGA is supported by Intel + World-Wide-Web Support [1]http://www.altera.com/mySupport _______________________________________________________________________ Index to Release Notes * [2]Key Information * [3]Release Announcements in 10.4f * [4]Base Product Specifications in 10.4f * [5]Compatibility Issues with Release 10.4f * [6]User Interface Defects Repaired in 10.4f * [7]SystemVerilog Defects Repaired in 10.4f * [8]VHDL Defects Repaired in 10.4f * [9]SystemC Defects Repaired in 10.4f _______________________________________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________________________________ Release Announcements in 10.4f * [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. _______________________________________________________________________ Base Product Specifications in 10.4f * [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 _______________________________________________________________________ Compatibility Issues with Release 10.4f SystemVerilog Compatibility * dvt85937 - (results) Fixed the issues that DPI disable protocol was not followed when a thread is terminated either by "disable fork" or "process:kill" VHDL Compatibility * dvt88164 - (results) In some specific mixed language cases where both numeric_std and 1164 packages were included vcom used to give an incorrect error saying "Cannot resolve expression type of association element". This has been fixed. _______________________________________________________________________ User Interface Defects Repaired in 10.4f * dvt87174 - Using vsim option -title inside a -f file will result in an error. * dvt87144 - An error is produced when attempting to use the fixed point radix types in a post-sim mode. This issue has been resolved. _______________________________________________________________________ SystemVerilog Defects Repaired in 10.4f * dvt85937 - (results) Fixed the issues that DPI disable protocol was not followed when a thread is terminated either by "disable fork" or "process:kill" * dvt86203 - Fix a crash in vsim when automatic variables for a class are declared within an if-then-else statement with a fork/join and wait. _______________________________________________________________________ VHDL Defects Repaired in 10.4f * dvt86918 - When an inner nested GENERATE block contained a slice name whose slice range depended in an outer FOR-GENERATE's loop parameter, and when a component instantiation in the inner GENERATE contained a GENERIC MAP association element that had an actual that depended on this slice name, then the compiler would create bad code that could crash the simulator. * dvt86935 - Fixed a crash where a VHDL port which is an array of std_logic, the actual of the port is a slice of a static expression and the port is connected to a Verilog port. * dvt86813 - A CASE GENERATE statement that contained an external name in the expression or in a choice in an alternative would sometimes cause a simulator crash. * dvt88164 - (results) In some specific mixed language cases where both numeric_std and 1164 packages were included vcom used to give an incorrect error saying "Cannot resolve expression type of association element". This has been fixed. * dvt35748 - When +cover was specified to vcom, implicit operators were included in the set of subprograms that were added to the Structure window in the GUI, along with user-defined subprograms. Implicit operators are no longer part of this set. * dvt89183 - Concatenation expressions involving a qualified expression whose operand was also a concatenation expression could sometimes cause a vcom internal error. _______________________________________________________________________ SystemC Defects Repaired in 10.4f * [nodvtid] - Fixed DPI and SystemC link time errors due to different standard library installation paths on some linux distributions. Library paths looked up at link time will be "/usr/lib64", "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu" for 64-bit and "/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu", "/usr/lib/i686-linux-gnu", "/usr/lib32" for 32-bit platforms * dvt86850 - In certain scenarios, where systemc.so would not unload during shared library cleanup and the design has global SystemC objects, vopt or vsim may crash at exit time trying to print an error message. This issue is now fixed.