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17 years ago

Compatibility between different Quartus versions

Hi list, I have a project created using Quartus 7.2. Due to internal issues I'm supposed to use Quartus 5.0. But I am not able to open my project files in version 5.0 which gracefully ind...
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17 years ago

There are some elements in *.qsf project files or e. g. in Signaltap *.stp files, that are not downward compatible between all versions. When opening a V8.1 project in V7.2, Quartus is showing incompatible *.qsf lines and you can delete them manually. Manual removal of incompatible entries may also help to import a project in V5.0, but I didn't yet try.

Also *.stp files have basically readable ASCII format, but very unhandy in part.