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temp1234
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3 years ago

Error while trying to run Questa simulator

I think this is related to a licensing error, that I'm not sure how to remedy, but I just installed Quartus (Lite edition) and Questa. And quartus seems to compile a simple module and testbench modu...
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RichardT_altera
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3 years ago

Hi,

Do you able to resolve the issue based on the solution provided by the community?


Regards,

Richard Tan


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    NickWilliams
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    3 years ago

    I also had this problem; please escalate this as a fault with the Quartus engineering team. It's very clearly a bug in the TCL code that would affect any attempt to launch Questa FSE from the menu in 22.1/Lite version of the product.

    nhw@MBP16:/mnt/c/intelFPGA_lite/22.1std/quartus/common/tcl/internal/nativelink$ diff -c qnativelinkflow.tcl.old qnativelinkflow.tcl
*** qnativelinkflow.tcl.old     2022-12-07 15:38:42.897669900 -0500
--- qnativelinkflow.tcl 2022-12-07 15:39:35.472632200 -0500
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*** 119,125 ****
     } else {
        set questa_fse_directory "$quartus_path/../questa_fse"
        if {[file isdirectory $questa_fse_directory]} {
!          set questa_installation "$questa_fse_directory
           set found_a_questa_installation 1
        }
     }
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     } else {
        set questa_fse_directory "$quartus_path/../questa_fse"
        if {[file isdirectory $questa_fse_directory]} {
!          set questa_installation "$questa_fse_directory"
           set found_a_questa_installation 1
        }
     }