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metaprogrammer
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7 years ago

Could not find a way to report a Quartus bug

It appears that Verilog preprocessor in Quartus is not quite standard-conformant, the usual string concatenation trick does not work. For example, the following will fail: `define PREFIX . `define...
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KhaiChein_Y_Intel
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7 years ago

Hi VLugo,

It took me some time to figure out the root cause of this error. Thanks for your patience and understanding.

I tried to test the definition in another edition of the Intel Quartus Prime software, pro edition. The compilation was successful. I believe that this error is due to the limitation of the Standard edition software in SystemVerilog language support.

You may refer to https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/programmable/us/en/pdfs/literature/po/ss-quartus-comparison.pdf for software comparison.

Thanks.