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AustinTatious
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3 years ago

Altera 10.1 not working on Windows 10 system

We were using Altera software Version 10.1 which featured a suite of DLL's that make up the hardware abstraction layer of our test fixture. The software was behaving properly on our Windows 7 system;...
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ak6dn
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3 years ago

You don't say whether you are using the 32b or 64b versions of Windows 7 or 10. It might matter.

That being said, I use Quartus 13.0sp1 and 16.0 on both Windows 7 64b and Windows 10 64b. They work fine.

Quartus 10.1 is REALLY old at this point and Intel/Altera no longer offers for download and they call it unsupported.

You might try running Windows 7 in a virtual machine on Windows 10 if you really need to move your base OS to Windows 10.

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3 years ago

Our systems at 64b Windows 7 and 10. We don't mind upgrading to a newer version of the code, the problem is with the DLL's. The DLL that we were using was "fs2nios2.dll", but that one is not in the newer versions of the Altera Software. I've been struggling to gain visibility into the DLL's that do exist to see if the functionality of that particular DLL has been moved to another file. I've tried putting them through decompilers such as "JustDecompile" and "dnSpy" but the DLL's either were not the correct CLR format as with the former or came out in a jumble of incomprehensible hex code as with the latter. If there is documentation somewhere that explores the function inputs and outputs of the existing DLL's even if it didn't offer the actual code within them that would be exceptionally helpful.

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    ak6dn
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    3 years ago

    Ok. I did a quick google and found this: http://www.testech-elect.com/fs2/isa-nios.htm

    Is this at all related to the fs2nios.dll issue? Did you a long time ago install some 3rd party software support?

    Just wondering.

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      AustinTatious
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      3 years ago

      I'm sorry could you elaborate on what the fs2nios.dll issue is that you're referring to and how it was solved? We tried using the debugger but it didn't show any issues. The issues only arise when we try to use the "fs2nios2.dll" on our Windows 10 machine.

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        ak6dn
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        3 years ago

        Sorry fs2nios.dll was a typo; should have been fs2nios2.dll as you indicate.

        My question was more general tho, asking if maybe that dll was installed from third party software and not native to Quartus?

        That would explain why you don't see it in any newer versions of Quartus.

        What does Windows Explorer show for the file info details for that file?