trc.exe has stopped working in Xilinx ISE tool

[msdarvishi]

Dear all,

I receive a message from Windows stating "trc.exe has stopped working" when attempting to execute "Generate Post Place & Route Static Timing" in Xilinx ISE tool. This also occurs with other tools of the design suite. This situation also occurs if launching the tools from the ISE Design Suite Command Prompt. Can anyone let me know how can I overcome this obstacle??!!

Thanks,

 

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just a "stopped working" message, no other information? Have you tried rebooting the machine, sounds like you're running into a windows instability problem, when I start seeing behavior like this I usually reboot or start shutting down all the browsers windows I have running to free up some RAM. Sometime you'll see stopped working messages if you don't have enough RAM and the PC starts to thrash the disk swapping continuously with the RAM. (If your constraints are too complex that can increase the RAM usage.)

A reboot seems to be in order if it's not the amount of RAM in the system.


Regards

 

[D.A.(Tony)Stewart]

DO you have enough RAM? How many processes are running in Task Mgr under all users? 50? 100? Run lean for best results.

Did you try compatibility mode install with latest version?

I'm just guessing. Ask the experts http://forums.xilinx.com/t5/Simulation-and-Verification/bd-p/SIMANDVERIBD

 

[msdarvishi]

just a "stopped working" message, no other information? Have you tried rebooting the machine, sounds like you're running into a windows instability problem, when I start seeing behavior like this I usually reboot or start shutting down all the browsers windows I have running to free up some RAM. Sometime you'll see stopped working messages if you don't have enough RAM and the PC starts to thrash the disk swapping continuously with the RAM. (If your constraints are too complex that can increase the RAM usage.)

A reboot seems to be in order if it's not the amount of RAM in the system.


Regards

Thanks for your reply. I did reboot lots of times and also I tried to implement my design on another PC but both of them encountered with trc.exe stopped working message !

 

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How much ram do the machines have? What OS and version are they running? What version of ISE are you running?
What part are you using?
How about posting the exact error verbatim from the screen, and perhaps posting the ucf file would help.

This is the information you've so far neglected to supply. Amlost all of these have a direct result on memory usage.

 

[msdarvishi]

How much ram do the machines have? What OS and version are they running? What version of ISE are you running?
What part are you using?
How about posting the exact error verbatim from the screen, and perhaps posting the ucf file would help.

This is the information you've so far neglected to supply. Amlost all of these have a direct result on memory usage.

Hi,
Thankd for your reply.
I am using ISE 14.7, running the 64-bit version.
Windows 7, OS 64bit
Target device is Virtex-5, XC5VLX50T
I have 4G RAM
No, I cannot run the timing analysis, it failes due to the trc.exe failure.
Also, the "xinfo system checker" report is in the attachment.

Best Regards,

 

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The only thing that stands out is the following:

PATH: D:\Xilinx\14.7\ISE_DS\common\\lib\nt64;D:\Xilinx\14.7\ISE_DS\ISE\lib\nt64;D:\Xilinx\14.7\ISE_DS\common\\bin\nt64;D:\Xilinx\14.7\ISE_DS\ISE\bin\nt64;D:\Xilinx\14.7\ISE_DS\ISE\..\..\..\DocNav;D:\Xilinx\14.7\ISE_DS\PlanAhead\bin;D:\Xilinx\14.7\ISE_DS\EDK\bin\nt64;D:\Xilinx\14.7\ISE_DS\EDK\lib\nt64;D:\Xilinx\14.7\ISE_DS\EDK\gnu\microblaze\nt\bin;D:\Xilinx\14.7\ISE_DS\EDK\gnu\powerpc-eabi\nt\bin;D:\Xilinx\14.7\ISE_DS\EDK\gnuwin\bin;D:\Xilinx\14.7\ISE_DS\EDK\gnu\arm\nt\bin;D:\Xilinx\14.7\ISE_DS\EDK\gnu\microblaze\linux_toolchain\nt64_be\bin;D:\Xilinx\14.7\ISE_DS\EDK\gnu\microblaze\linux_toolchain\nt64_le\bin;D:\Xilinx\14.7\ISE_DS\common\bin\nt64;D:\Xilinx\14.7\ISE_DS\common\lib\nt64;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Intel\Shared Files\fortran\bin\Intel64;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Intel\Shared Files\cpp\bin\ia32;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2013a\runtime\win64;C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2013a\bin;C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\x64\;

I noticed there are double backslashes in the path names between the common\\lib and common\\bin.
You might want to see if the path is the issue as the paths look to be pointing to invalid locations

For comparison purposes here is the path that my system (Win7 Pro 64-bit) has for 14.7 and you'll notice the paths are different.

PATH=E:\Xilinx\14.7\ISE_DS\ISE\bin\nt64;E:\Xilinx\14.7\ISE_DS\ISE\lib\nt64;E:\Xilinx\14.7\ISE_DS\ISE\..\..\..\DocNav;E:\Xilinx\14.7\ISE_DS\PlanAhead\bin;E:\Xilinx\14.7\ISE_DS\EDK\bin\nt64;E:\Xilinx\14.7\ISE_DS\EDK\lib\nt64;E:\Xilinx\14.7\ISE_DS\EDK\gnu\microblaze\nt\bin;E:\Xilinx\14.7\ISE_DS\EDK\gnu\powerpc-eabi\nt\bin;E:\Xilinx\14.7\ISE_DS\EDK\gnuwin\bin;E:\Xilinx\14.7\ISE_DS\EDK\
gnu\arm\nt\bin;E:\Xilinx\14.7\ISE_DS\EDK\gnu\microblaze\linux_toolchain\nt64_be\bin;E:\Xilinx\14.7\ISE_DS\EDK\gnu\microblaze\linux_toolchain\nt64_le\bin;E:\Xilinx\14.7\ISE_DS\common\bin\nt64;E:\Xilinx\14.7\ISE_DS\common\lib\nt64;

Also according to the following you've got more than enough memory to support the LX50T (requires peak of 1.7GB): https://www.xilinx.com/ise/products/memory.htm

If fixing the path doesn't work you'll probably have to open a webcase with Xilinx.


Regards