AR# 71347

Description

This Answer Record contains patch updates for Soft-Decision FEC (SDFEC) Integrated Block v1.1(Rev 1) in Vivado 2018.2. 

Solution

Fixed Issue : 

Installation:

METHOD 1: (Vivado 2014.4 and later only)

1. Navigate to the $XILINX_VIVADO/patches directory (Linux) or C:\Xilinx\Vivado\<vivado_version>\patches (Windows) directory (create this directory if it does not exist)
2. Extract the contents of the ".zip" archive to a directory starting with the name AR71347
   Note: most extraction tools will allow you to automatically create a directory with the same name as the zip file
3. Run Vivado software tools from the original install location.

METHOD 2:

1. Create a separate directory containing patched files
2. Extract the contents of the ".zip" archive to the desired patch directory location.
3. Set the XILINX_PATH environment variable to point to this patch directory
   i.e. set XILINX_PATH=C:\XILINX_PATH\vivado-patch-AR71347\vivado\
4. Run Vivado software tools from the original install location.

For other known issues with Soft-Decision FEC (SDFEC) Integrated Block, see (Xilinx Answer 70720)

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