Honored ContributorI have an ALTPLL in my design.
When I try to change it, the Megawizard gets to the 2nd screen, then stops responding to input. After a while, a pop-up comes along and says that it's not responding, and offers to kill it for me. And, near as I can tell, the configuration is now whacked. This is Quartus-15.0 WebPack on Linux (CentOS 7)
Honored ContributorA little update: I'm still poking at it, because I can't finish the design without it (and if I don't finish it, I don't get paid).
It worked for an hour or so, then stopped working again. It worked long enough for me to spot some oddities, the biggest being that if you turn off the reset input it still creates one and forces you to export the conduit. While I was trying to figure that one out it stopped working - now it's back to the hang situation. When it hangs it takes one CPU core up to 100% and keeps it there - the longest I've waited is 15 minutes - and you have to kill it to get back to Qsys. For "fun" I installed 14.1 on a different machine. It behaves the same way, and (oddly) when one works the other will work, and when one hangs the other will hang. This is on two different machines, two different versions of Linux, and two different versions of Quartus. The only thing that's consistent with the crash/hang is the time of day.Honored ContributorMore poking around - I really don't want to get a payday-advance to pay rent this month.
In version 13.1 the ALTPLL wizard never comes up. The 'Add Module' screen runs for a bit, changes to 'Edit Module', then goes right back to Qsys. In version 13.0 the ALTPLL wizard will finish. Goodness knows if the output is usable; that's the area in my design that seems to be causing all the problems. In 13.1 'Altera PLL' will finish. That IP is greyed out in current versions which makes me nervous about using it. Note to Altera: The ALTPLL wizard seems to have gotten broken starting with version 13.1 - my guess would be that Linux updates since then have rendered it useless. Question: Does anyone have a work-around? Any chance that this defect will be addressed?Honored ContributorHi d_s_klein,
What device are you working on? the ALTPLL if the PLL IP for either IV series or the MAX10... Have you tried to create a new PLL ip based on the device IP catalogue (if you are in QII 15.0) or generate a new PLL through the megawizard (if you are planning to use the QII 13.1)Honored ContributorCyclone-IV - Specifically, a EP4CE22F17C6N, the 'device IP catalogue' does not support PLL's, so I'm using the MegaWizard.
The ONLY thing I have found that works is to create the ALTPLL in 13.0, and then use it in later versions. That works, so long as you NEVER (never!) try to edit it. It seems almost certain that it is a defect in the megawizard - I'm wondering just how loud I have to be to get someone that can fix it to acknowledge that it exists. In the words of Dr. McCoy: "He's dead, Jim."Honored ContributorI can confirm this issue is in 15.0, but didn’t see it at all in 13.1, latest sp. I am running quartus on Ubuntu. The PLL wizard GUI becomes unresponsive and mega_altpllq is using 100% of one core endlessly, which definitely makes it hard to get stuff done. Text based is more productive.
Honored ContributorSearch also for "altpll megawizard hangs under Linux".
Honored ContributorHonored ContributorHonored ContributorAfter the last Linux update, the ALTPLL Megawizard aborts at startup. It starts loading then exits - you can see the component flash into Qsys, then it disappears.
If it were not for the fact that I have clients waiting for product, this would be comical. Sigh. Does ANYONE have a tip or trick to get this working? PLEASE?
New ContributorWell, sort of...
Sadly this is still broken under Quartus 18.1 under Linux (I had this problem under Ubuntu so, because the official line is that Ubuntu is not supported, I installed a system with Centos 7 for the sole purpose of (hopefully) being able to run Quartus without so much flakiness but alas it still [sometimes] behaves badly under CentOS as well). However: I have found that sometimes when the ALTPLL Megawizard goes into its unresponsive-and-burning-99%-CPU routine if I leave it alone for ten minutes or so and go make a cup of coffee it sorts itself out and all subsequent pages after the first work. However other times it never comes around. I've also had a similar problem with the on-chip-memory wizard as well. Ultimately I really wish they'd admit that the whole Megawizard thing is a lost cause and just document clearly and in a centralized location the TCL commands to create all these IP variants and hard block instances from the command line with no GUI (because it seems to be the GUI that's going sideways, not the actual underlying code that does the work to generate the instance information by filling out its template).
New ContributorUnder system requirements, Ubuntu 14/16/18.04 LTS are explicitly supported. It's a generic problem. Every IP wizard I've tried fail most of the time on Linux. Sometimes on Windows as well.
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