Intel的PAC卡在开发过程中，使用remote signal tap进行时，在本地执行如下命令报错。

Hi,

You can use Quartus to achieve the project which include all revision.

Hi ​JohnT,

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finally I got it works now.now signaltap can remotely capture data now.

the reason is that

after I put 2 assignments into afu.qsf

set_global_assignment -name ENABLE_SIGNALTAP ON

set_global_assignment -name USE_SIGNALTAP_FILE "../../hw/par/A10/stp_basic.stp"

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those above 2 assignmetn supposed be done by extra_tcl-0_stp.tcl

but if you check the path in extra_tcl-0_stp.tcl you will find the path is wrong

set_global_assignment -name USE_SIGNALTAP_FILE ../hw/par/A10/stp_basic.stp.

the correct one is

set_global_assignment -name USE_SIGNALTAP_FILE "../../hw/par/A10/stp_basic.stp"

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the wrong one made stp file can not be included during the compilation, that is why stp always reported Can't find the instance. Download a design with SRAM Object File containing this instance.

that original extra_tcl-0_stp.tcl is provided by vendor, I have not changed it. that is root cause.

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thanks for your help.

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I think many other customer would duplicate same issue, if they follow the instruction from page 35 in chapter 6 AFU in-system debug of AFU Developer’s Guide for Intel FPGA Programmable Acceleration Card.

thanks all your help.

Best regard

Jim

I Share my project here with everyone for reference.

but when I was doing achieve project with ticking all version, system reported an error

Error(16368): Top-level design entity "dcp_top" is undefined

anyway I attached my project here, anyone wants single other file can email to me jimlinmake@hotmail.com.

thanks

jim

Hi,

Thanks for sharing. I would recommend to always check on the Quartus report to confirm STP is included and compiled into your design so that the SignalTap is able to run.

Hi JohnT,

thanks for that, May I know which report and which part in that report should be check for confirming the stp is included?

any key words can be use to search ? I think this is very useful,

thanks

Jim

Hi,

please look at .fit.rpt file.

Hi JohnT,

I have checked the file afu_fit.fit.rpt,which is 137.9MB, it is too long and too big.

I have not fund signaltap relative information,which can be use to indicate if sitnaltap file is included or not.

thanks

jim

Hi,

If you look into fit.rpt, you will observed "inst_SLD_HUB_cont_sys" which is usually the SignalTap resource and in .synth.rpt, you will observed .stp file being included into your design.

Hi JohnT,

I have found my stp file is in the section source files read of ​afu_synth.syn.rpt, looks like stp file is included by compilation flow.

thanks for your help

Jim

Hi,

I am glad to help you on this.