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Honored Contributorsof2flash issue in 12.1sp1
Hi all
Now I'm involved porting some old NIOS2 based designs (built with the 10.0 version of Quartus) from the SOPC builder tool to the Qsys tool (in version 12.1sp1 of Quartus). When using the sof2flash tool to convert a .sof file to a file suitable to be loaded on an EPCS chip I get this strange error: [mcesar@localhost nios2-linux]$ sof2flash --verbose --epcs --input=misssi.sof --output=misssi.flash Apr 26, 2013 11:20:00 AM - (FINE) sof2flash: Starting Info: ******************************************************************* Info: Running Quartus II 32-bit Convert_programming_file Info: Command: quartus_cpf --no_banner --convert --device=EPCS128 --option=misssi.opt misssi.sof misssi.pof Info (210033): Memory Map File misssi.map contains memory usage information for file misssi.pof Info: Quartus II 32-bit Convert_programming_file was successful. 0 errors, 0 warnings Info: Peak virtual memory: 121 megabytes Info: Processing ended: Fri Apr 26 11:20:02 2013 Info: Elapsed time: 00:00:02 Info: Total CPU time (on all processors): 00:00:02 Info: ******************************************************************* Info: Running Quartus II 32-bit Convert_programming_file Info: Command: quartus_cpf --no_banner --convert misssi.pof misssi.rpd Info: Quartus II 32-bit Convert_programming_file was successful. 0 errors, 0 warnings Info: Peak virtual memory: 121 megabytes Info: Processing ended: Fri Apr 26 11:20:03 2013 Info: Elapsed time: 00:00:01 Info: Total CPU time (on all processors): 00:00:01 Apr 26, 2013 11:20:04 AM - (SEVERE) sof2flash: Error generating Flash file, exiting Apr 26, 2013 11:20:04 AM - (FINE) sof2flash: Done This error occurs both in a Windows 7-64 box and also in a CentOS 6.4 box. Old version 10.0 does not have any problem with this conversion. Also, removing the --epcs option from the command line the sof2flash tool works flawlessly. Does anybody have a clue? Thanks and regards.6 Replies
Altera_ForumI'm the only one with this problem?
- Altera_Forum
It looks that way... did you try with different .sof files? Are you in a path where you have write access?
- Altera_Forum
Yes, I tried different .sof files and, yes, I do have write permissions (in fact soft2flash has no problems writing some temporary files when launched). I opened a service request at the Altera web and, apparently, I'm not the first one reporting this, although people at Altera cannot, by now, reproduce the problem.
- Altera_Forum
In case it helps shed any light on the issue - I had an issue with sof2flash not working as I moved to another PC that only had the webpack 9.1 tools installed. When I ran sof2flash --help it did not show a --pfl option indicating it was not the full version. When I ran in a nios II 12.0sp2 command window it worked fine. I would check it is calling the correct version.
- Altera_Forum
Thanks for the tip. I've just checked and it does show the --pfl option, so it seems it is a full version.
- Altera_Forum
People at Altera were, at last, able to reproduce the issue.
In any case, Quartus 13.0 does work properly.
