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13 years ago

Problems porting from 11.1 SOPC to 12.1 QSys.

I have recently opened my 11.1 design in 12.1, starting from an Archive (.qar file)

It contains an SOPC builder system, and I want to port it to QSys for various reasons.

I have encountered a couple of minor issues in doing this, but now have hit this problem.

Here is my current flow:

  • Open Quartus, using the .qar as the project. ok.

  • Open QSys from the tools menu. Select the MortonScaler.sopc file.

  • This errors-out indicating that the DDR global resets are not hooked up. Hook them up to external ports to the QSys system. ok

  • Hit Generate

  • This errors out indicating that some custom source files (MeasureDVI.vhd, ru_wrap.v, sh4mbx_core.v, mbxcore.v) are not present. Somehow the archive did not include them. Add these files from the original. ok.

  • Hit Generate again

  • Now this errors out with the error:

Info: altpll_0: Error while generating MortonScaler_altpll_0.v : 1 : Error: DLL ("altpll_avalon") not found

child process exited abnormally

Info: altpll_0: Error: DLL ("altpll_avalon") not found

child process exited abnormally

while executing

"exec clearbox altpll_avalon device_family=ARRIAII CBX_FILE=MortonScaler_altpll_0.v -f cbxcmdln_1355780123425864"

("eval" body line 1)

invoked from within

"eval exec $cbx_cmd "

Error: Can't continue processing -- expected file /tmp/alt5691_5190484615655509375.dir/0021_sopcgen/MortonScaler_altpll_0.v is missing

Warning: Quartus II 64-Bit Generate HDL Interface was unsuccessful. 1 error, 0 warnings

Error: Peak virtual memory: 851 megabytes

Error: Processing ended: Mon Dec 17 13:35:28 2012

Error: Elapsed time: 00:00:02

Error: Total CPU time (on all processors): 00:00:01

Error: altpll_0: File /tmp/alt5691_5190484615655509375.dir/0021_sopcgen/MortonScaler_altpll_0.v written by generation callback did not contain a module called MortonScaler_altpll_0

Error: altpll_0: /tmp/alt5691_5190484615655509375.dir/0021_sopcgen/MortonScaler_altpll_0.v (No such file or directory)

Info: altpll_0: "MortonScaler" instantiated altpll "altpll_0"

Error: Generation stopped, 1325 or more modules remaining

Info: MortonScaler: Done MortonScaler" with 91 modules, 224 files, 18034244 bytes

Error: ip-generate failed with exit code 1: 8 Errors, 12 Warnings

Info: Finished: Create HDL design files for synthesis

I have not managed to get past this issue in 12.1 QSys.

I have attached the qar file, and the missing HDL files that appear to be necessary to open the QSys project.

Any help is gratefully received.

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  • Altera_Forum's avatar
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    Hi, I suggest you to remove your current pll from you Qsys system

    and then add the version 12.1 of the pll.