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10 years ago

Error in open for .ptf file

Hi all, I am getting error: "The File anc.ptf is an SOPC Builder generation output file, and cannot be loaded." I have one .PTF file which is generated using some other system and i want t...
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10 years ago

Don't you have the .sopc file? The .sopc file is the input file to SOPC builder and the .ptf file is the output. You are supposed to work with the .sopc file. In some cases SOPC builder is able to reconstruct the design from a .ptf file but it doesn't always work, as you see, especially if you try to load it in a different version of Quartus than the one that generated the .pft file.