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15 years ago

waiting for clock ?!

Hello, I am using signal-tap to investigate a problem.

But currently the problem is signalTap itself.

I have a trigger clock (100 Mhz), which I am sure its running, otherwise

nothing would run on the FPGA but a PC, which is connected to that FPGA board is receiving the data..this means that the clock must run

The strange thing is that Signal-Tap displays that he is waiting for the clock.

So this means that S.T. doesnt see any clock transitionon the trigger clock

I am only using signals from the presynthesis

Does anybody else here has already encountered the same kind of problem ?

Could it be a JTAG connection problem ? But flashing the FPGA is working fine

and S.T. doesn't report any bad JTAG connection

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    Altera_Forum
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    --- Quote Start ---

    Hello, I am using signal-tap to investigate a problem.

    But currently the problem is signalTap itself.

    I have a trigger clock (100 Mhz), which I am sure its running, otherwise

    nothing would run on the FPGA but a PC, which is connected to that FPGA board is receiving the data..this means that the clock must run

    The strange thing is that Signal-Tap displays that he is waiting for the clock.

    So this means that S.T. doesnt see any clock transitionon the trigger clock

    I am only using signals from the presynthesis

    Does anybody else here has already encountered the same kind of problem ?

    Could it be a JTAG connection problem ? But flashing the FPGA is working fine

    and S.T. doesn't report any bad JTAG connection

    --- Quote End ---

    Hi,

    did you get any warning during compilation that your clock node isn't found ?

    When you open the stp-file is the clock node dispalyed in red colour ?

    Kind regards

    GPK
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    Hi,

    did you get any warning during compilation that your clock node isn't found ?

    When you open the stp-file is the clock node dispalyed in red colour ?

    Kind regards

    GPK

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    no they're displayed in black and I dont see any warning.

    this is a really strange behaviour.

    I have used S.T. really often in the past, but this is also new for me
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    no they're displayed in black and I dont see any warning.

    this is a really strange behaviour.

    I have used S.T. really often in the past, but this is also new for me

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    Hi,

    I only run into this problem when the selected node was removed or renamed by Quartus,

    but then the node was dispalyed in red colour. Did you change the Quartus version ?

    Kind regards

    GPK
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    If I remember right, the only reason why I get this message was a clock, that has been actually stopped.

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    I solved the problem when I use post-fitting signals instead of pre-synthesis signals. Hmm strange..formerly it was always working with pre-synthesis signals