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14 years ago

Problem in SOPC ALTPLL Megafunction-OpenSuse 11.4

Hi, I'm using quartus 10.0sp1 installed on a OpenSuse 11.4 system.

in Quartus I can use the megafunction to create a PLL with no problems whatsoever, but whe i try to instantiate a Avalon PLL in SOPC the megafunction wizard opens, i configure it the way I need, but when i click Finalize, it just doesn't appear on the list, I think it was supposed to create a *hw.tcl file, right? it doesn't. I tried re-installing, and even installing the latest version of Qsys (web edition), the error still occurs...

Does anyone knows what may be the problem?

Thanks

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    14 years ago

    i just discovered that if i run quatus as root it works, so I guess it's a permission issue, but I tried reinstalling quartus on my home folder, not using root for anything and the problem still persists... any ideas?

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    14 years ago

    have you tried newer software? 10.0 wasn't the strongest release even with the service pack

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    14 years ago

    Thanks for the reply, but yes, like I said, even with quartus 11 running Qsys, the same problem still happens..

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    14 years ago

    i missed that

    i was able to add an Avalon ALTPLL to SOPC Builder in 11.1 on Centos 5 without root access, so it must be something specific to Suse?
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    14 years ago

    Weirdly, I added another user and it worked, then it did'nt again, then I deleted the other user and then in my normal user account, it worked.... o.O

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    14 years ago

    Did you happen to install it as root?

    I ran into a problem when installing 10.1sp1 on Ubuntu as root. It creates a ~/.altera.quartus folder in your home directory with only root permissions. This is where the tools stores your IP search path in SOPC Builder. Since I didn't have write permissions to that directory, it wouldn't store my IP search path when run as user. I wonder if you're running into something similar in which it automatically attempts to modify that file when you generate the PLL from within SOPC/Qsys.