PAC-Designer 6.24 Software

ANNOUNCING: PAC-Designer 6.24

PAC-Designer 6.24 provides up to date support for Lattice Power, Platform and Clock Management products. PAC-Designer 6.24 is associated with Lattice Diamond 2.1 to incorporate advanced HDL design features. Installation of Lattice Diamond 2.1 is required before installation of PAC-Designer 6.24 to enable access to extended digital design features available for the Platform Manager family products.

Description

PAC-Designer is a complete design and verification solution supporting platform management, power management and programmable clock device families. PAC-Designer is supported on Windows 7, Windows Vista (32-bit), and Windows XP operating systems.

Features
Minimum System Requirements

Follow the steps below to Download and Install PAC-Designer. To download software from the Lattice Semiconductor web site, you must have a Lattice web site account. Before you begin downloading and installation, log-in or request a Lattice web site account. If you don't have an account, you will be prompted to create one.

Useful Documentation

The following table contains links to installation and usage documentation. More support documentation can be found by following links on the page to application notes, Reference Designs and Development kit support collateral.

PAC-Designer Support Documentation
Document	Download
PAC-Designer Installation Notice: The installation notice describes in detail, the requirements for installing Lattice Diamond and PAC-Designer software. Download this notice first if complete, step by step installation instructions are desired.	PAC-Designer Installation Notice, PAC-D_Install_Notice.PDF
PAC-Designer Software User Manual: This is the detailed user manual on how to use and design with PAC-Designer. It is also available within the tool via Windows Help functionality.	PAC-Designer Software User Manual, PAC-D_SW_Manual.pdf

Download Diamond 2.1 and PAC-Designer 6.24 Software Installation Files

Windows Software	Description	Version	Size
Diamond for Windows	Lattice Diamond Downloads for Windows (XP, Vista 32-bit, 7 32-bit & 64-bit)	2.1	1.4GB
PAC Designer 6.24	PAC-Designer installer for Windows (XP, Vista 32-bit, 7 32-bit & 64-bit)	6.24	128MB

Install Lattice Diamond 2.1 and PAC-Designer 6.24 Software

If a previous version of Lattice Diamond is not installed on your machine, you must first download, unzip and install Lattice Diamond as directed during the installation process. Download the installation notice above for more detailed, step by step instructions.
If you already have a current version of Lattice Diamond installed on your machine, skip the next step and go directly to installing PAC-Designer below.
Next, obtain a Diamond Free License (see below) and place the license.dat file in the specified directory. This is the minimum requirement other license options are available on the Diamond Software Downloads page.
Finally, unzip and install the PAC-Designer in the recommended (default) location. Installation of PAC-Designer must be done after a successful installation of Lattice Diamond. This is to insure PAC-Designer is set up with access to the extended Lattice Diamond digital functionality. If you are already running a previous version of PAC-Designer, the installation program will remove it. At this time you must double-click on the installer executable again, and the new version will automatically be installed. In other words, if a previous version of PAC-Designer exists on your machine you will have to run the install program twice --once to remove the old version and once to install the current version.

Lattice Diamond Licensing
Licensing	Description
Diamond Free License	Use this link to request a Diamond free license which provides access to many popular Lattice devices such as the Platform Manager product family, MachXO2™ PLD family, MachXO™ PLD family, the LatticeXP2™ FPGA family and the LatticeECP2™ FPGA family at no cost. The Diamond free license also enables Synopsys Synplify Pro for Lattice synthesis and Aldec Lattice Edition II mixed language simulation features.

Running PAC-Designer

To create or open a PAC-Designer (.PAC) file, start PAC-Designer and either select "File -> New" to create a new design file, or use the "File -> Open" funtion to open and resume design on an existing design file. For more details on the operation and usage of PAC-Designer, refer to the user manual or select the internal HELP utility.

Features

Fully integrated design and simulation environment for Platform Manager, Power Manager II, and ispClock devices
High level logic design mechanism
Easy-to-use GUI
For Platform Manager it works in conjuction with ispLEVER to form a complete CPLD/FPGA design environment
Works with other Lattice software support tools such as IP Express

Design Entry

Hierarchical design entry
- Pulldown menu for selecting clock signaling specification
- Simple navigation mechanism for configuring analog & digital functional blocks
- Schematic entry for internal connections and setting parametric circuit values
High level design entry for flexible power management
- LogiBuilder
Design utilities
- I²C utility
- Trim margin utility
- Clock frequency synthesis
- Graphical skew editing
- Frequency calculators

Simulation

Export VHDL or Verilog HDL models to popular 3rd party HDL simulators
Create your power management stimulus graphically
Digital waveform simulation for easy design verification
Simulate power supply rate

Programming

Use Diamond Programmer (included in Lattice Diamond 2.0) to download your designs to silicon via a USB or Lattice ispDOWNLOAD Cable.
Diamond Programmer programming support is included with Lattice Diamond. For products other than Platform Manager, PAC-Designer can be used directly to program Platform Manager, Power Manager II and ispClock devices.

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Minimum System Requirements

Pentium Compatible PC
1 GB of RAM (2 GB highly recommended)
Mouse and mouse driver
Windows 7, Windows Vista (32-bit) or XP
IE version 5.X or later
USB port for downloading designs