Release Notes for the Summer 09 Service Pack 3 Release of Altium Designer

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Summer 09 Service Pack 3 Build 9.3.0.19150 (from Build 9.2.0.18802)

FPGA

  • Support for Xilinx Virtex-6 devices has been added.
  • Support for Xilinx Spartan-3A, Spartan-3ADSP and Spartan-3E Automotive devices has been added.
  • The DataWidth property of the Custom Instrument plug-in in Software Platform document is now properly synchronized with the OpenBus symbol.
  • Lattice ispLEVER 8.0 is now supported.
  • The NB3000XN Slideshow example has been reviewed and is now booting properly from the internal flash of the Spartan-3AN FPGA.
  • A new FPGA PB30 Port Plug-in library has been added.
  • The Processor Memory Configuration is now properly updated for Shared Memory Controller components connected through Arbiter only.
  • Synplicity for Lattice no longer exits with a fatal error when the project path does not include space characters.
  • Support for NanoBoard 3000 Lattice edition revision 2 (NB3000LC.02) has been added.
  • Added option to control automatic reload of documents modified outside of Altium Designer. In case of several modified documents a single confirmation dialog pops up instead of multiple separate ones.

System-level

  • The OutputFilePath scripting parameter in Publish To PDF scripts works again.
  • An "Invalid floating point operation" error no longer occurs when opening some websites internally written in javascript that include shockwave items.
  • Fixed painting of floating panels under Vista/Windows 7.

Embedded

  • Improved interrupt handling in the EMAC32 driver, reducing the number of interrupts to be dealt with.
  • LWIP default settings (lwipopts.h) were updated to optimize TCP/IP throughput. (Settings can be overruled in lwipopts_user.h)
  • Improved scheduler which reduces maximum and average times needed to switch threads.
  • Several issues regarding the interworking of POSIX interrupts, timer interrupts and native interrupts have been fixed.
  • The IDE driver now sets IDE core speed depending on CPU clock speed. A new API function allows for user selectable PIO mode. The driver switches to PIO mode 3/4 if this is specified by the drive.
  • The TMR3 driver software now minimizes the probabilty of missing a timer interrupt.
  • The IDE driver now properly mounts partitions on drives bigger than 8 GB.
  • Month range is now correctly set to [1..12] in DS1391 and PCF3123 clock device drivers.
  • Writes to a file opened in append mode now always occur at the end of the file.
  • Return values for putchar and read functions in the documentation for the I2CM driver have been corrected.





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