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19 years ago

Quartus 7.1 Sp1 and DSPBuilder 7.1Sp1

Hallo everyone,

I have a problem with my Installation. I have installed Quartus 7.1 Sp1 and DSPBuilder 7.1Sp1.

If I want compile any Example Model like "singen" an error occured.

The SignalCompiler shows the following message:

Created Quartus II Project C:\altera\71\quartus\dsp_builder\DesignExamples\Tutorials\GettingStartedSinMdl\singen_dspbuilder\singen.qpf

Generating HDL

Analyzing model...

Matlab Error

Java exception occurred:

java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: checkOut

at com.altera.dspbuilder.portmanager.PortManager.checkOut(Native Method)

at com.altera.dspbuilder.serialisation.ModelSerialiser.<init>(ModelSerialiser.java:88)

Error during generation: Analyzing Error: See log for details.

Has anyone an idea who is the problem? or where I can found the log file?

So long

Mario

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  • Altera_Forum's avatar
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    19 years ago

    Sounds like a faulty installation to me. You could try re-installing.

    Or you could check if your QUARTUS_ROOTDIR environment variable point to a directory containing a dsp_builder subdirectory? This needs to be set or it can't find its DLLs.
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    19 years ago

    I have the same problem, but a reinstalltion of all Altera software components (Quartus II 7.1 SP1, DSPBuilder 7.1SP1 and MegaCore 7.1SP1) does not solve it.

    Are there other issues that could cause this java exception?

    Thanks for your help,

    Bernhard
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    19 years ago

    In the directory %QUARTUS_ROOTDIR%/dsp_builder/bin, there should be a file called PortManager.dll. Is this DLL there?

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    19 years ago

    Yes, the PortManager.dll is there.

    But it seems that the method CheckOut, which is a member of PortManager can not be excecuted/linked correctly.

    Are there different versions of PortManager.dll available or does PortManager.dll depend on some other files that are missing on my system?

    By the way: I am running the software on a Win2000 SP4 operating system. So could there be a problem that PortManager.dll depends on a missing OS dll?
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    19 years ago

    Yes that sounds like the problem.

    The release notes for 7.1 state that it requires XP unfortunately. You can use depends from http://www.dependencywalker.com/ to find out what DLLs are missing. It's possible they can be installed onto your machine, but I really don't know.
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    19 years ago

    DependancyWalker shows apphelp.dll is missing und some other problems with modules missing in system specific dlls.

    apphelp.dll is XP specific and also the other dlls can not be replaced.

    Therefore I guess it is not possible to run DSPBuilder with Win2000 ... :-(

    I always had in mind the Altera software would also support the Win2000 OS. Maybe thats wrong for DSPBuilder....
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    19 years ago

    And of course you have MatLab / Simulink & ModelSim simulator installed as well.

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    19 years ago

    Did you install Matlab/Simulink as "read-only"? If so, then it would prevent you from accessing its JAVA class, which DSP Builder needs... You can always try reinstalling Matlab/Simulink...

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    19 years ago

    It's already loaded its classes or he wouldn't have had a Java exception in the first place. (Look at the stack trace in the first post). It's highly unlikely to be anything to do with Matlab/Simulink, but is in fact because DSP Builder only supports Windows XP as is stated in the release notes.