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9 years ago

ieee.fixed_pkg in Quartus Prime 16.0 Lite Edition

Hi, I just recently started fiddling with FPGAs and I am currently trying to learn VHDL 2008. One of the textbooks I am following has an example of a MAC implementation that uses a type calle...
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9 years ago

Afaik, the fixed_pkg is only available in the pro version of Quartus prime. Altera has only had limited 2008 support for several years, with those features being some minor usability enhancements, not the new packages.

Raise an enhancement request with altera and complain.

You can download the '93 compatability versions from here http://wayback.archive.org/web/20160313200350/http://vhdl.org/fphdl/index.html

You can include them as source files in your own project and they should work just fine (I used them back in 2009/2010) without a problem.