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8 years ago

Compile Error of vector_add in de5a_net_e1 board

Hi,

When I was running "aoc device/vector_add.cl -o bin/vector_add.aocx --board de5a_net_e1 --report"

I got this error message: "Error: Compile Error, no able to genertae hardware"

And in quartus_sh_compile.log

...

Error (23031): Evaluation of Tcl script import_compile.tcl unsuccessful

Error: Quartus Prime Compiler Database Interface was unsuccessful. 1 error, 0 warnings

Error: Peak virtual memory: 1442 megabytes

Error: Processing ended: Thu Dec 7 08:46:31 2017

Error: Elapsed time: 00:29:42

Error: Total CPU time (on all processors): 00:14:58

I download the BSP v16.0 from Terasic.

https://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?language=english&categoryno=228&no=970&partno=4

$ aoc --version

Altera SDK for OpenCL, 64-Bit Offline Compiler

Version 16.0.0 Build 211

Copyright (C) 2016 Altera Corporation

$quartus_map --versionQuartus Prime Analysis & Synthesis

Version 16.0.2 Build 222 07/20/2016 SJ Pro Edition

Copyright (C) 1991-2016 Altera Corporation. All rights reserved.

I am working on Centos 7. I know the BSP v16.1 on this board is somehow broken, so not step to v16.1.

Does that matter with Quartus v16.0.2 or have to be v16.0.0?

Anyone has idea or suggestion?

Thanks a lot.

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    8 years ago

    How much RAM does your build machine have? How much swap space does your machine have? One way to find this is to open a command line and type "free".

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    8 years ago

    --- Quote Start ---

    How much RAM does your build machine have? How much swap space does your machine have? One way to find this is to open a command line and type "free".

    --- Quote End ---

    Hi,

    thanks for the reply.

    It's on my PC, not much RAM. (is running the cmd...) 

             
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:        3854112     3591616      101120       56852      161376       10148
Swap:       8126460     7616700      509760

    I just upgraded AOC to 16.0.2, matching to my Quartus version. Run but fail again.

    So I trace the log before the error popped out and run the last command. 

    Info: Command: quartus_cdb -t import_compile.tcl
Info: Using INI file /home/hting1/t_altera/vector_add_v2/bin_bd_v2/vector_add/quartus.ini
Error (23031): Evaluation of Tcl script import_compile.tcl unsuccessful

    $ quartus_cdb -t import_compile.tcl

    And the problem, for now, is "qsys-generate: command not found.", which is under "$QUARTUS_ROOTDIR/sopc_builder/bin", not in the document.

    Now I add the path and run it. I will update the result later.
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    8 years ago

    --- Quote Start ---

    Hi,

    thanks for the reply.

    It's on my PC, not much RAM. (is running the cmd...) 

             
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:        3854112     3591616      101120       56852      161376       10148
Swap:       8126460     7616700      509760

    I just upgraded AOC to 16.0.2, matching to my Quartus version. Run but fail again.

    So I trace the log before the error popped out and run the last command. 

    Info: Command: quartus_cdb -t import_compile.tcl
Info: Using INI file /home/hting1/t_altera/vector_add_v2/bin_bd_v2/vector_add/quartus.ini
Error (23031): Evaluation of Tcl script import_compile.tcl unsuccessful

    $ quartus_cdb -t import_compile.tcl

    And the problem, for now, is "qsys-generate: command not found.", which is under "$QUARTUS_ROOTDIR/sopc_builder/bin", not in the document.

    Now I add the path and run it. I will update the result later.

    --- Quote End ---

    [Update]

    I still failed in import_compile.tcl and it stopped at this command, "qexec "quartus_fit top -c base"

    These are three files I think it may help figure out. Can anyone help?
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    8 years ago

    You MUST use the same Quartus and AOC version. The v16.0 BSP should work with all versions of AOC from 16.0.0 to 16.0.2. If your machine only has 4 GB of memory, you are not going to be able to successfully compile anything on it. Depending on design size, between 18 to 48 GB of memory is required for successful compilation on Arria 10. The compilation log does not clearly say why the process is failing; I would assume you are running out of memory.