help beginner "report not available"

Hi,

can you tell which device you are using, Cyclone III, IV or something else? After a succesful compilation you should read:

Info: Quartus II Full Compilation was successful. 0 errors, XXX warnings

in the massage window and the Popu-Window after compilation.

Hi

Thanks for your interest. I used the exact device specified in the tutorial, a

EP3SE50F484C2 from Stratix 3. There were a few errors listed. (See below)

After reading you reply I tried a few other devices from different families and got and got similar results from cyclone. However, using a MAX device produced no errors, full compilation, but STILL NO REPORTS.

This is the sort of thing I get at the message window with stratix, cyclone:

Info: You have a valid up-to-date license

Info: You have a valid up-to-date license

Error: Selected feature of TimeQuest Timing Analyzer is not available with your current license, or license does not exist

Info: You have a valid up-to-date license

Error: Current module quartus_asm ended unexpectedly

Error: Quartus II Full Compilation was unsuccessful. 2 errors, 0 warnings

And with MAX II:

Info: You have a valid up-to-date license

Info: You have a valid up-to-date license

Info: You have a valid up-to-date license

Info: You have a valid up-to-date license

Info: Quartus II Full Compilation was successful. 0 errors, 0 warnings

Are there limitations with the web edition and licensing that cause this problem?

Hope this information is useful, and thanks again

Hi, for sure there are limitations. You can take alook here.

http://www.altera.com/literature/po/ss_quartussevswe.pdf

OK thanks Jacol

But there are no errors using MaxII and it is supported in the web edition software.

Hi,

in case you are using an older version of Quartus II, you can try to disable the TimeQuest Timing Analyzer.

Go to -> Assignments -> Settings -> Time Analysis Settings and switch to Classic Timing Analyzer

Hi JacoL

It now works! It must be related to installation and licence. After a few failures to reinstall, I loaded Quartus to another computer, got a new licence number and it worked. Something was wrong in the registry (maybe) because quartus kept using my old project settings and would not forget them, even after a reinstall. I will now be very careful not to try an unsupported device in the web edition until I learn a lot more! It would have been helpful for a beginner if the very first tutorial mentioned that the suggested device needed the subsciption edition.

Thanks for your assistance. It has helped me get out of this trouble.

Hi Flinders.

I have this problem. I instaled Quartus II 10.0sp1 web edition. I make this VHDL file

LIBRARY ieee ;

USE ieee.std_logic_1164.all ;

ENTITY light IS

PORT ( x1, x2 : IN STD_LOGIC ;

f : OUT STD_LOGIC ) ;

END light ;

ARCHITECTURE LogicFunction OF light IS

BEGIN

f <= (x1 AND NOT x2) OR (NOT x1 AND x2)

END LogicFunction ;

which is regular. I compile it and a get no warnings or errors. Now when I remove the semicolon from line where f is defined compiler reports no error at all. I think that it should report that "; is expected" or something like that. The code with error is:

LIBRARY ieee ;

USE ieee.std_logic_1164.all ;

ENTITY light IS

PORT ( x1, x2 : IN STD_LOGIC ;

f : OUT STD_LOGIC ) ;

END light ;

ARCHITECTURE LogicFunction OF light IS

BEGIN

f <= (x1 AND NOT x2) OR (NOT x1 AND x2)

END LogicFunction ;

Why isn't my compiler working? (the device is MAXII)

And ofcourse Compilation report says data not available.

Hi Jovankricka

Well, it is a while since I have tried Quartus, but finally, to get it working, I installed Ver 6.1, and hey, no problems.

Also noted, ver 10.1 worked on XP home edition but not on XP OEM, further confused by these versions of XP being on different computers. So could have been the hardware???

So, I will stick with ver 6.1 for a while.

Maybe try one these ideas.

I agree that some the messages you get out of quartus are not helpful, especially when it says it is a successful compile and it is NOT.

I am sure somebody out there with more experience could be more helpful.

Cheers.