CS152 Remote Desktop Client University of California at Berkeley College of Engineering Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Compiled 9 4 2004 for CS152 Fall 04 Dave Patterson and John Lazzaro Please send any errors corrections or comments to cs152 te imail eecs berkeley edu 1 SOFTWARE NEEDED 1 2 RDC SERVER 1 3 KNOWN PROBLEMS AND THEIR WORKAROUNDS 2 3 1 UNABLE TO CREATE A NEW PROJECT NAVIGATOR PROJECT 2 3 2 MODELSIM COMPLAINS ABOUT NOT BEING ABLE TO FIND MODULES ACCESS LIBRARIES 2 3 3 MODELSIM COMPLAINS ABOUT INCOMPATIBLE LIBRARY VERSIONS 2 4 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION 2 1 Software Needed In order to remotely access the CAD tools used for this course a client for Windows Terminal Services is needed Windows Remote Desktop http www microsoft com windowsxp downloads tools rdclientdl mspx Remote Desktop Client for OS X untested http www microsoft com mac otherproducts otherproducts aspx pid remotedesktopclient rdesktop untested http www rdesktop org 2 RDC Server The server used for cs152 is kramnik eecs berkeley edu which runs Windows Server 2003 As of 9 4 2004 it runs slightly newer versions of the CAD tools in 119 Cory This means that there are some migration issues between lab and kramnik In addition because Xilinx does not officially support running its tools under Windows Sever 2003 some significant bugs may be encountered 3 Known Problems and their Workarounds 3 1 Unable to create a new Project Navigator Project It appears that Project Navigator is unable create new projects under Windows Sever 2003 However it is able to open and modify previous created ones A blank project is located in M skeleton Copy M skeleton to the desired directory to create a new project 3 2 ModelSim complains about not being able to find modules access libraries Error vsim 19 Failed to access library xilinxcorelib ver at xilinxcorelib ver No such file or directory errno ENOENT Error vsim 19 Failed to access library unisims ver at unisims ver No such file or directory errno ENOENT Error vsim 3033 bit1adder vf 17 Instantiation of XOR3 failed The design unit was not found Region bit2adder tb myAdder ba Searched libraries Error vsim 19 Failed to access library xilinxcorelib ver at xilinxcorelib ver No such file or directory errno ENOENT Error vsim 19 Failed to access library unisims ver at unisims ver No such file or directory errno ENOENT work In 119 Cory we have modified the default modelsim ini file in c ModelSim 5 7d to include information about the location of Xilinx simulation libraries That way when starting a simulation with vsim t 1ps maxdelays L xilinxcorelib ver L unisims ver bit2adder tb glbl ModelSim is able to locate the xilinxcorelib ver and unisims ver libraries Copy M new lib modelsim ini into your project directory 3 3 ModelSim complains about incompatible library versions Fatal vsim 3381 Obsolete library format for design unit Fatal vsim 3382 New library format is incompatible with this version of the simulator Because the version of Modelsim installed on Kramnik is different than the one installed in 119 For 119 Cory copy M lib modelsim ini to your project directory and for Kramnik copy M new lib modelsim ini to your project directory If you open the file you will see the three lines that are responsible for mapping unisims ver and XilinxCoreLib ver to the correct location For 119 Cory unisims ver M lib unisims ver XilinxCoreLib ver M lib XilinxCoreLib ver simprims ver M lib simprims ver For Kramnik unisims ver M new lib unisims ver XilinxCoreLib ver M new lib XilinxCoreLib ver simprims ver M new lib simprims ver 4 Additional Information See the cs150 Kramnik information page http www inst eecs berkeley edu cs150 fa04 Kramnik htm
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