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13 years ago

megafunctions problems

:confused: Hi there,

i starting my first project with the SOPC Builder using an NIOSII.

After starting the Quartus Programmer I got these message:

"example.sof contains on or more time-limited magafunctions that support the opencore plus feature that will not work after the hardware evaluation time expires. refer to the messages window for evaluation time details."

In the message window stands:

...contains time-limited megafunction that supports opencore plus feature -- vendor: 0x6af7, product: 0xbcec

...contains time-limited megafunction that supports opencore plus feature -- vendor: 0x6af7, product: 0x00a2

...contains time-limited megafunction that supports opencore plus feature -- vendor: 0x6af7, product: 0xbce1

Can somebody help me?

I use the web version of quartus. Do i need a license for using NIOSII ?

Thanks

John

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    12 years ago

    OMG ... I found the problem.

    Would you believe, the programmer window is not actually being closed (shut down) at all -- but merely sent to the back, behind the main window, when I click OK the close the warning message!!! Further more, each time one clicks the button to bring up the programmer window, a NEW window is opened, with the same warning message. That new window also appears to close completely, as soon as the warning message is clicked away, but is in fact also merely sent behind the main window. GOOD GRIEF!! :-/

    So this whole time -- this whole four plus freakin hours !!! -- has been all due to nothing more than a user interface design flaw!!

    Clicking Window on the main Quartus menu (running maximized, fwiw) and selecting the existing Programmer window from there, gets us going just fine, with no other issues at all.

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