clavin-xlnx
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5 years ago Providing an .igf file, although recommended, is optional and will not cause a direct problem.
The error you are seeing is happening during the parsing of a generated metadata file. When running rapid_compile_ipi, each IPI block is synthesized, placed and routed out of context. Additionally, the RapidWright tcl command (see tcl/rapidwright.tcl) generate_metadata is run on the implementation to aid in creating a pre-implemented module.
From the error message it looks as though it cannot find the SiteInst where a site pin resides which is unexpected. Would it be possible for you to share the DCP in question? this would be located in the $(HOME)/blockCache directory. There will be several hash-name-based subdirectories in your blockCache directory. You may want to add a print statement to the code to identify which block is causing there error. For example, you could add the following after line 123 to the file com/xilinx/rapidwright/design/MetadataParser.java:
System.out.println("Parsing Metadata file: " + metadataFileName);
To answer your other question, rapid_compile_ipi will finish after the Java thread has terminated. Unfortunately, it won't show the progress in the Tcl command window. If it finishes successfully, it will print a message:
Created Placed DCP at: <your_design_name>_placed.dcp
This code can be found in com/xilinx/rapidwright/ipi/BlockStitcher.java:764.
when I am running command rapid_compile_ipi I am getting a message that no .igf file available. Execution stops with showing messages below. Please help me with this issue
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException at com.xilinx.rapidwright.design.MetadataParser.parse(MetadataParser.java:357) at com.xilinx.rapidwright.design.Module.(Unknown Source)
at com.xilinx.rapidwright.ipi.BlockCreator.createBlock(BlockCreator.java:101)
at com.xilinx.rapidwright.ipi.BlockCreator.createOrRetrieveBlock(BlockCreator.java:504)
at com.xilinx.rapidwright.ipi.BlockStitcher.main(BlockStitcher.java:523)
How can I understand that synthesis or implementation is being completed?