Nu-be needs to chat with experienced Quartus user

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Hi folks,

I need a couple of minutes of help from someone who can guide me through a few rough spots on my first Quartus design. Rather than burden this forum with a list of questions, I think it may be easier for all if I could just chat with someone. I'm in the CA Bay Area, and likely a few minutes would go a long way towards letting me complete my design. Or, if there is an official place to go for this, I haven't found it. My design is completely schematic based using Megafunctions. Thanks.

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Hi Corwin,

did you have a look to the tutorials in Quartus ? Under help you can find a tutorial which guides you through the flow. Maybe that will answer your first questions.

Kind regards

GPK

Thanks for the suggestion. I did go through the tutorials. I in fact have my first design completed except for a problem creating 10-bit wide parts with the Megafunction wizard (as noted elsewhere). I could just complete the design by splitting the 10-bit parts into 8+2, but that seems to defeat the use of parameterized functions. There's no great hurry, and I'm hoping someone experienced with schematic entry can clue me in with fixing it properly.

-Corwin

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Thanks for the suggestion. I did go through the tutorials. I in fact have my first design completed except for a problem creating 10-bit wide parts with the Megafunction wizard (as noted elsewhere). I could just complete the design by splitting the 10-bit parts into 8+2, but that seems to defeat the use of parameterized functions. There's no great hurry, and I'm hoping someone experienced with schematic entry can clue me in with fixing it properly.

-Corwin

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Hi Corwin,

can you explain your Megafunction problem more specific ???

Kind regards

GPK

The issue I was having mysteriously cleared itself up. In the block editor, I selected a part such as the lpm_shiftreg. That then automatically opens the editor for that part. One of the first adjustable fields is the 'width' of the register. If I left that at 8, it instantiated properly and I could connect nodes to it just fine. If I changed the width to '10', when it instantiated, there were no connections on the outline of the part. I had this problem for the entire first day of use. After shutting down my system and rebooting on the next day, everything worked fine! From then on I have had no problems.

But, thanks for asking.