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Is anybody else completely dissatisfied with this new forum?
This used to be a robust forum, lots of new questions everyday and, most impotantly, lots of responses. This new forum is clunky and time consuming to navigate. Nobody seems interested anymore. I used to check-in everyday to see what's new. Not any more.
OMG. What did you think?
As there doesn't seem to be any dedicated feedback forum for forum issues anymore, I post here to express my complete dissatisfaction with the new 'solution': Although the old Altera forums weren't especially fast and user friendly, the new one appears to me as huge quantum leap. Backwards. It's awfully slow, apparently buggy (messages about Javascript blocking the browser everywhere), pages constantly displaying busy indicators. Long story short: I consider it completely useless in it's current state. If you want to get rid of your trusty Altera customers, this is a perfect way to do so...
Quartus programmer for Linux ARM / ARM64
Hi Intel, Would it be possible to support the quartus programmer on linux for arm and arm64 platforms? In our lab we have several raspberrypi's for remote debugging of systems. We use them for serial consoles, power cycling devices or simple digital IO. This makes remote debugging and testing possible from behind our desk while the physical hardware is in the lab. The only thing we are missing is the possiblity to hookup a USB-blaster to get access to signaltap instances or use the nios debugger. We can use a regular PC in the lab and connect to the Jtag-server running on it, but this is not as flexible as a small single board computer like the raspberrypi is. Would it be an idea to support the arm / arm64 architecture for the quartus programmer, or just the jtag-server? Kind regards, Rienk de Jong
Is https://fpgasoftware.intel.com down?
Hi, I am trying to access https://fpgasoftware.intel.com, in order to download a version of Quartus. Nevertheless, I am not able to do so as it seems that the site is down. I tried using my account from 2 different browsers, Firefox and Safari. Is this the case or is it only from my side? Thanks, Nassos
Quartus download site broken
If you visit http://fpgasoftware.intel.com/, the website seems to be completely broken. If you try to sign in using the sidebar by clicking "sign in" in the top right, the sign in button literally does nothing. If you click a download button and sign in on the page you're redirected to, you get a page that just says "errors: invalid response".Diagnosing Congestions
Hello, our Arria 10 design suffers from routing congestions. We used the "Top Congested Nets" report to identify critical nets and reworked the design, e.g. by manual register replication, pipelining etc. Despite the elimination of several high-fan-out nets, routing still fails with congestions. Since we have seen designs containing nets with significantly higher number of overused nodes and fan-outs, we are questioning our metrics. How can we diagnose the root cause of router congestions? Please find attached the archived project. Best regards, NickFritzschehttps://fpgasoftware.intel.com/ connection problem
I'm not able to connect to https://fpgasoftware.intel.com/ to download either Quartus Prime or Lite or to download Modelsim from it's respective location. I've tried multiple browsers on a couple different OS. Also pinging showed that it wasn't available.Quartus 20.1 NIOS II ED error: Makefile:1010: recipe for target '***.elf' failed
I have just migrated from 18.1 to 20.1 Lite. I am working on a W10 machine and have installed WSL, Ubuntu, etc. NIOS II SBT is running and I was able to create a new project from template as instructed. I created a project using the "Small Hello World" template. The application and bsp projects were created. Cleaning and building the bsp project works well as does clean the application project. However, when I try to build the application project, I get the following error - 10:03:31 **** Build of configuration Nios II for project test_20_1_7 **** wsl make all wslpath: hal_bsp: No such file or directory Info: Building /mnt/c/a_Nightowl/wds2hdmi/rtl/qsys/software/test_20_1_7_bsp/ make --no-print-directory -C /mnt/c/a_Nightowl/wds2hdmi/rtl/qsys/software/test_20_1_7_bsp/ [BSP build complete] Info: Compiling hello_world_small.c to obj/default/hello_world_small.o nios2-elf-gcc.exe -xc -MP -MMD -c -IC:/a_Nightowl/wds2hdmi/rtl/qsys/software/test_20_1_7_bsp/HAL/inc -IC:/a_Nightowl/wds2hdmi/rtl/qsys/software/test_20_1_7_bsp -IC:/a_Nightowl/wds2hdmi/rtl/qsys/software/test_20_1_7_bsp/drivers/inc -pipe -D__hal__ -DALT_NO_C_PLUS_PLUS -DALT_NO_CLEAN_EXIT -D'exit(a)=_exit(a)' -DALT_NO_EXIT -DALT_USE_DIRECT_DRIVERS -DALT_NO_INSTRUCTION_EMULATION -DALT_USE_SMALL_DRIVERS -DSMALL_C_LIB -DALT_SINGLE_THREADED -Os -g -Wall -mno-hw-div -mno-hw-mul -mno-hw-mulx -mgpopt=global -o obj/default/hello_world_small.o hello_world_small.c Info: Linking test_20_1_7.elf nios2-elf-g++.exe -T'C:/a_Nightowl/wds2hdmi/rtl/qsys/software/test_20_1_7_bsp/linker.x' -msys-crt0='C:/a_Nightowl/wds2hdmi/rtl/qsys/software/test_20_1_7_bsp/obj/HAL/src/crt0.o' -msys-lib= -LC:/a_Nightowl/wds2hdmi/rtl/qsys/software/test_20_1_7_bsp -msmallc -Wl,-Map=test_20_1_7.map -Os -g -Wall -mno-hw-div -mno-hw-mul -mno-hw-mulx -mgpopt=global -o test_20_1_7.elf obj/default/hello_world_small.o -lm -msys-lib=m nios2-elf-g++.exe: error: missing argument to '-msys-lib=' make: *** [test_20_1_7.elf] Error 1 Makefile:1010: recipe for target 'test_20_1_7.elf' failed 10:03:34 Build Finished (took 2s.438ms) I have no idea what this error means. Can any one help me?