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13 years ago

Instance instantiates undefined entity

I have a project using the VIP scaler II. I am able to build it using the Quartus 11.1sp2 GUI on Ubuntu Server 11.04 64bit. The GUI build runs fine, but a command line build errors out during map w...
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13 years ago

It should be okay. I've had this working in version 10.1sp1 but I've recently migrated to 11.1sp2 with the intention of migrating the design to Qsys afterwards.

I think I figured out what was going on. I have a makefile copy my project files and source to a new folder under /var/tmp/<user>/ and automatically update a revision register before kicking off the build. Apparently, Quartus stores your IP search path under /home/<user>/.altera.quartus/ip/<quartus version>/ip_search_path/user_components.ipx. Note the <quartus version> folder. Having just migrated to 11.1sp1, my search path wasn't stored there. Now, that doesn't explain why it bombed on synthesis of the scaler II, but I did just migrate from scaler I to scaler II, so I have multiple things going on.

The other issue is that we have all the project files and source stored in SVN. We occasionally build the project in Windoze depending on who does it.

We'll see how this build pans out.