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10 years ago

Migration from megawizard to qsys ip

Hello, I have to convert an older cycloneIII design to a new cycloneV SOC design. The original design was created using Quartus12.1 and contains a lot of megawizard generated ip cores. The new ...
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10 years ago

Quartus 15.1 should compile your old design just fine. What cores are you worried about?

Many cores can be migrated inside quartus using auto-update.

Annoyingly though, some cores have to be manually migrated, and this will require re-generating the cores (like PCIE). Even more annoyingly, I have found transceiver settings are not modifyable via the QSYS interface - you have to tweak the generated code BY HAND!!

Its a bit of a shambles - some of the IP catalogue is just a front to load the megawizard.