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ocraM
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1 year ago
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How to know if questa is correctly installed in my linux system?

I installed quartus in my ubuntu 22.04 system by following this tutorial, so downloading the installer from here and executing the setup.sh script. Now I'm learning how to create testbenchs and I ...
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    RichardT_altera
    1 year ago

    Check the error message and see what it complain about.


    The "#Error error loading design" seems to indicate that the Questa is unable to find the design files.

    Check if the path to the file being loaded is incorrect, or the path contains a space character, or the file does not exist.


    Check the line 12 in the ...msim_gate_vhdl.do file and see what is it about.


    Do you run a full compilation in the Quartus prior to launch the Questa to run gate level simulation?


    Regards,

    Richard Tan


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1 year ago

,Sorry for the late reply. My problem persists.

I downloaded a license file and put it at /usr/local/flexlm/licenses/LR-<NUMBER>_License.dat

Following this tutorial my license file has now the form (I scrambled letters and numbers from the original license in order to not expose anything that could be problematic. They were generated with a random string generator):

# Intel Corporation Software and/or Intellectual Property License File
# Issued 18 December 2024
# Upgrade to these products will no longer be available after the Maintenance Expiration  
# date unless licenses are renewed.  
# Floating Server License
# Primary Machine Name-Telescope
# Primary Machine ID-NIC ID 123456789ABC
# Redundant Server 2-N/A
# Redundant Server 3-N/A
# Product License Summary:
# 3 Questa*-Intel® FPGA Starter Edition (License: SW-QUESTA), 1 Seat(s)
# - Maintenance Expiration of 2025.12
# - License Expires 18-Dec-2025
################################################################################ 
SERVER hivemind 123456789ABC <port number>
VENDOR alterad /home/marco/intelFPGA_lite/23.1std/quartus/linux64/alterad
USE_SERVER
################################################################################
# FEATURE START 
# This is license file for Questasim*-Intel FPGA Starter Edition 
# Number of seat licenses is 1 
# License Expires 18-Dec-2025 
INCREMENT intelqsimstarter mgcld 2025.12 18-dec-2025 1 \
    SOMELETTERSANDNUMBERS VENDOR_STRING=7GJEYZK7 ISSUER=Intel SN=346185330 \
    SIGN2="WV6H SGEH Y87O 72J3 ZAXE 27EY 853M XSVK MTCK SU7H B6B4 TE8P JBD2 \
    BGF5 Z9NS CYHM DYKC GEC2 8Y9Z AOZY 8WJH JHHA H5UM 95ZJ QYBB 4YKD UMF1 \
    DYKC GEC2 8Y9Z GEC2"

# FEATURE END 
################################################################################
# End of Intel Corporation Software and/or Intellectual Property License File. Issued 12/18/2024

I also added the LM_LICENSE_FILE environment variable to my .desktop file:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Version=0.9.4
Name=Quartus (Quartus Prime 23.1std) Lite Edition
Comment=Quartus (Quartus Prime 23.1std)
Icon=/home/marco/intelFPGA_lite/23.1std/quartus/adm/quartusii.png
Exec= env LM_LICENSE_FILE=/usr/local/flexlm/licenses/LR-209063_License.dat /home/marco/intelFPGA_lite/23.1std/quartus/bin/quartus --64bit
Terminal=false
Path=/home/marco/intelFPGA_lite/23.1std

However, when compiling I still get the same error:

What am I doing wrong?

Also, I tried finding some questa executable but anything below 23.1std/questa_fse/bin didn't seem to be what I was looking for