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13 years ago

Cyclone V Transceiver Reconfiguration - Error 12252: wrong device family

In Qsys I'm connecting a reconfiguration controller to the PCIe hard ip in a cyclone V device using Quartus 13.0sp1.

When synthesizing the design "Error 12252: wrong device family (Stratix V)" appears even though all settings are "Cyclone V" which is also mentioned as an allowed choice in the error message.

It seems Qsys is not setting the target device family correctly in the alt_xcvr_reconfig component.

As a quick workaround I edited the file C:\altera\13.0sp1\ip\altera\alt_xcvr_reconfig\alt_xcvr_reconfig_soc\alt_xcvr_reconfig_cpu.qsys

and changed two lines to:

<parameter name="deviceFamily" value="Cyclone V" />

<parameter name="deviceFamilyName" value="Cyclone V" />

replacing "Stratix V" with "Cyclone V".

I could then run Synthesis and Fitter without any errors.

I guess it would be better to edit the file(s) in my project to make the deviceFamily parameter set correctly !?

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    Altera_Forum
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    It supposed to be able to update the device family based on user choice, this seem like valid problem if this really happen. You may file service request for this