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16 years ago

Q9.1: ECO and Smart Recompile

Hello

I experience two problems here right now that might be connected to the Quartus version:

- If I run quartus_sh -determine_smart_action, I always get SMART_ACTION = SOURCE, even if I just ran the mapper. Does anyone else have this problem?

- I just tried to commit an ECO change, but the fitter complains, that I first need to run the mapper with incremental compilation switched on for the top level. This is the case anyway and obviously there is a netlist available for the fitter (I used the tech-map viewer with post-fit data to do the change).

Does somebody know those problems and/or has a fix for it?

/emanuel

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    Altera_Forum
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    16 years ago

    i just ran the command on a full compile:

    Info: Command: quartus_sh --determine_smart_action s4gx_pcie

    Info: Quartus(args): s4gx_pcie

    Info: SMART_ACTION = DONE

    is it only after the mapper that --determine_smart_action fails? can you try after a full compile to see if we are getting the same results?
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    Altera_Forum
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    16 years ago

    Hi

    thanks for the test. I just tried after a full run. The result is still SOURCE.

    But then, doing the same on another workspace of the same project, it seems to work (i.e. FIT after the mapper, DONE after a full run).

    So i guess my database is somehow corrupted. I will clean that up and check again.

    Thanks for the input and sorry for the early alert

    Emanuel