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14 years ago

How to generate programming files for free

Hello,

Can someone explain me how to complete a project (Generate programing files for the CycloneII) withouty buying expensive software.

I downloaded 2 free tools from Altera Website.

-Quartus II Web Edition

-Quartus II 30 day evaluation

The Evaluation version have nice reports ans many tools included but cannot generate the programming files of the project , as indicated by the message "The Evaluation Licence does not allow generating assembler files"

The Web edition of quartus, Seems , for me , not presenting any report during compilation, and do not display many message. There is a message saying "Compilation success" , but never any programming files are generated.

THANK

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    14 years ago

    The web edition should produce everything, but it is limited to the smaller devices.

    Otherwise you have no choice but to pay up.
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    14 years ago

    Thank for answering.

    It is for CycloneII.

    It seems that i have the error :

    Error (316008): Selected feature of TimeQuest Timing Analyzer is not available with your current license, or license does not exist

    Can i remove TimeQuest analysis step from the compile design flow.

    Thank
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    14 years ago

    CYCLONE: this problem comes up every now and then, but i can't remember the specific resolution. try searching old forum threads

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    14 years ago

    to clarify, this is not the expected behavior of Quartus, but some kind of bug (or maybe user error?)