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20 years ago

Strange building problem with SOPC builder

Hi,

we have been successfully generating many NIOS II designs with the SOPC builder over the last 8 weeks. Today however, the following error apears when trying to generate a system (with two NIOS II cpu's)

I hope anyone here knows what is going wrong, because I have no idea what the error is.

Thanks in advance,

Jos

Altera SOPC Builder Version 4.20 Build 178

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# 2005.04.13 10:05:16 (*) mk_custom_sdk starting

# 2005.04.13 10:05:16 (*) Reading project C:/USERS/JOS/NIOS2_demo/full_2s60ES.ptf.

# 2005.04.13 10:05:19 (*) Finding all CPUs

# 2005.04.13 10:05:19 (*) Finding all available components

# 2005.04.13 10:05:19 (*) Found 47 components

# 2005.04.13 10:05:24 (*) Finding all peripherals

# 2005.04.13 10:05:25 (*) Finding software components

# 2005.04.13 10:05:31 (*) (Legacy SDK Generation Skipped)

# 2005.04.13 10:05:31 (*) (All TCL Script Generation Skipped)

# 2005.04.13 10:05:31 (*) (No Libraries Built)

# 2005.04.13 10:05:31 (*) (Contents Generation Skipped)

# 2005.04.13 10:05:31 (*) mk_custom_sdk finishing

# 2005.04.13 10:05:31 (*) Starting generation for system: full_2s60ES.

..............

# 2005.04.13 10:05:44 (*) Running Generator Program for cpu_0

# 2005.04.13 10:05:57 (*) Checking for plaintext license.

# 2005.04.13 10:05:58 (*) Plaintext license not found.

# 2005.04.13 10:05:58 (*) Checking for encrypted license (non-evaluation).

# 2005.04.13 10:05:58 (*) Encrypted license found. SOF will not be time-limited.

Undefined subroutine &nios2_small::make_perf_cnt called at c:/altera/kits/nios2/components/altera_nios2/nios2_small.pm line 103 during global destruction.

Error: Generator program

for module 'cpu_0' did NOT run successfully.

generator cmd was 'c:/altera/quartus42//bin/perl561/bin/perl -IC:/altera/quartus42/sopc_builder/bin -IC:/altera/quartus42/sopc_builder/bin/europa -IC:/altera/quartus42/sopc_builder/bin/perl_lib -I. -Ic:/altera/kits/nios2/components/altera_nios2 -Ic:/altera/kits/nios2/components/altera_nios_dev_board_stratix_1s10_es -Ic:/altera/kits/nios2/components/altera_nios_dev_board_stratix_2s60_es -Ic:/altera/kits/nios2/components/altera_nios_custom_instr_endian_converter -Ic:/altera/kits/nios2/components/amd_avalon_am29lv128m_flash -Ic:/altera/kits/nios2/components/amd_avalon_am29lv065d_flash -Ic:/altera/kits/nios2/components/altera_nios_dev_kit_stratix_edition_sram -IC:/altera/quartus42/sopc_builder/components/altera_sopc_builder -Ic:/altera/kits/nios2/components/altera_nios_dev_board_stratix_1s40 -Ic:/altera/kits/nios2/components/altera_nios2 -IC:/altera/quartus42/sopc_builder/components/altera_avalon_clock_adapter -Ic:/altera/kits/nios2/components/altera_avalon_spi -Ic:/altera/kits/nios2/components/altera_avalon_cfi_flash -Ic:/altera/kits/nios2/components/altera_avalon_dma -IC:/altera/quartus42/sopc_builder/components/altera_ahb_avalon_bridge -IC:/altera/quartus42/sopc_builder/components/altera_avalon_avalon_ahb_bridge -IC:/altera/quartus42/sopc_builder/components/altera_avalon_tri_state_bridge -Ic:/altera/kits/nios2/components/altera_nios_eval_board_cyclone_1c12 -Ic:/altera/kits/nios2/components/mtx_nios_dev_board_cyclone_1c12 -Ic:/altera/kits/nios2/components/altera_avalon_lan91c111 -Ic:/altera/kits/nios2/components/altera_avalon_lcd_16207 -Ic:/altera/kits/nios2/components/altera_nios_dev_kit_stratix_edition_sram2 -Ic:/altera/kits/nios2/components/altera_nios_multiply -IC:/altera/quartus42/sopc_builder/components/altera_avalon_burst_adapter -Ic:/altera/kits/nios2/components/altera_nios_dev_board_cyclone_1c20 -IC:/altera/quartus42/sopc_builder/components/altera_avalon_user_defined_interface -Ic:/altera/kits/nios2/components/altera_plugs_library -Ic:/altera/kits/nios2/components/altera_avalon_cs8900 -Ic:/altera/kits/nios2/components/altera_nios_dev_board_stratix_1s10 -Ic:/altera/kits/nios2/components/altera_avalon_jtag_uart -Ic:/altera/kits/nios2/components/altera_avalon_asmi -IC:/altera/quartus42/sopc_builder/components/altera_avalon_onchip_memory -Ic:/altera/kits/nios2/components/altera_avalon_onchip_memory2 -Ic:/altera/kits/nios2/components/altera_avalon_timer -Ic:/altera/kits/nios2/components/altera_dsp_dev_board_stratix_2s60_es -Ic:/altera/kits/nios2/components/altera_avalon_new_sdram_controller -Ic:/altera/kits/nios2/components/altera_nios_custom_instr_bitswap -IC:/MegaCore/ddr_sdram-v2.2.0/lib/sopc_builder/ddr_sdram_component -Ic:/altera/kits/nios2/components/altera_avalon_epcs_flash_controller -Ic:/altera/kits/nios2/components/altera_avalon_performance_counter -Ic:/altera/kits/nios2/components/altera_avalon_sysid -Ic:/altera/kits/nios2/components/altera_avalon_mutex -Ic:/altera/kits/nios2/components/altera_avalon_uart -Ic:/altera/kits/nios2/components/altera_nios_custom_instruction -Ic:/altera/kits/nios2/components/opencores_i2c -Ic:/altera/kits/nios2/components/mtip_avalon_10_100_mac -Ic:/altera/kits/nios2/components/altera_user_board_setup -Ic:/altera/kits/nios2/components/altera_avalon_pio c:/altera/kits/nios2/components/altera_nios2/cpu_core_select.pl --system_name=full_2s60ES --target_module_name=cpu_0 --system_directory=C:/USERS/JOS/NIOS2_demo --sopc_directory=C:/altera/quartus42/sopc_builder --sopc_lib_path=C:/USERS/JOS/NIOS2_demo+c:/altera/kits/nios2/components+C:/MegaCore/ddr_sdram-v2.2.0/lib/sopc_builder+C:/altera/quartus42/sopc_builder/components+c:/altera/kits/nios2/components --generate=1 --verbose=0 --software_only=0 --module_lib_dir=c:/altera/kits/nios2/components/altera_nios2 --sopc_quartus_dir=c:/altera/quartus42/ --projectname=full_featured '

Error in processing. System NOT successfully generated.

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  • Altera_Forum's avatar
    Altera_Forum
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    This error was apparently caused by changing the cpu type from "fast" to "standard". When I put both cpu's on "fast" it works fine. On the other hand I still don't know what causes the error.