WShep1
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ContributorEdit IP Catalog IP and saving to different name
Is there a way to edit an existing IP Catalog IP item, change it, and then save it off as a different named IP item? I am using Quartus Lite 20.1.1.
Thanks,
Bill
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sstrellSuper Contributor
What exactly do you want to change? Some IP let you create presets that you can select the next time you add the IP to a design.
WShep1For example, I have a fifo that is 48 bits wide and 256 words deep, and I want to change it to24 bits wide and 256 words deep. However, I don't want to changes any of the other parameters associated with the 48x256 fifo, and I want to create a new IP and not over write the 48x256 fifo. Or if I have a PLL and want to change some of the frequencies and save it off as a new PLL IP without destroying the original PLL IP.
I know that I can always create a new IP, but sometimes all you want to do is change one parameter without changing any of the other parameters and then save the changed IP off as a new IP. In these cases, it would be easier to edit an existing IP than to start over and create a new IP.
Thanks for your assistance,
Bill
- sstrell
So if you're using Pro edition, like I said you can just open the .ip file for the existing IP variant and save it as a preset. Then, when you reopen the IP Parameter Editor for the same IP to create a new one, give it a new variant name, select the preset, and adjust what you need.
I believe in Lite/Standard, this same process would work for some IP that support presets. I don't have Standard handy to check right now.
KennyT_alterawhen you click on the tools menu -> IP catalog. a separate screen should pop out, can you take some screenshot and put in to the Microsoft words? This will help us understand better your issue.
- WShep1
When I click on the tools menu -> IP catalog nothing happens. No menu pops up or anything.
- WShep1
This same thing of nothing happening when I click on tools menu -> IP catalog has occurred on my computer for at least the last four versions of Quartus Prime Lite, 18.1, 19.1, 20.1 and 20.1.1
- KennyT_altera
may I know what OS that you are running? We don't see this problem in most of our machine.
- WShep1
I have attached a document that shows what version of Windows 10 I am running.
- KennyT_altera
I try install Quartus lite to my windows 10 machine. I don't see this problem.
can you try the below:
1) Can you try on different project to see if is project specific issue?
2) install currprocess https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/cprocess.html and disable all the software running behind there
3) disable the anti virus
4) close all the Quartus software
go to c:/user/<username>/ rename the quartus2.ini and quartus2.req for windows
cd to home/<user>/.altera.quartus rename the quartus2.ini and quartus2.req for linux
and reopen the quartus. this will reset the initial setting of the quartus prime.
5) did you install all the devices?
6) check if you have spaces in your directory names? If you had, try to replace the spaces with underscores.
7) delete .altera.quartus
Make sure all your folder are not in read only options. - KennyT_altera
any update?
- WShep1
I tried the steps that you suggested on a different machine with both Quartus 18.1 and 19.1 Lite. Except for the last step as I don't know where ".altera.quartus." is to be able to delete it and hence, I was not able to do this last step.
This problem does not depend on any specific project. All I have to do is open up any version of Quartus that I have, 18.1, 19.1, 20.1, or 20.1.1 and then click on the "tools" menu and then click on the "IP Catalog" menu and nothing happens.
If something like the old "MegaWizard" is suppose to come up after clicking on the "IP Catalog" menu item, it absolutely does not happen in any of the versions of Quartus that I have mentioned above on both of my Windows 10 computers.
thanks for your continued assistance in trying to solve this problem,
Bill
- sstrell
Are you saying that you cannot make the IP Catalog appear in Quartus (within the tool itself; not necessarily popped out)? By default it appears in the upper right-hand corner of the tool. Or are you still referring to seeing the IP Parameter Editor vs. the old Megawizard?
