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10 years ago

QSYS 15.0 hanging (hung, wedged, locked-up etc) when loading my design

Hi, I am experiencing some troubles with 15.0 qsys-edit becoming wedged when loading my 13.1 design. The qsys editor GUI becomes completely comatose with the "open system" dialog box visible. I...
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Try using a Virtual Machine (VirtualBox) with either Windows 7 or Centos 6.x or 7.0. If Quartus II runs fine there, then just give up using Ubuntu :)

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Yep perhaps the best thing to do, but Centos based tool chains don’t sync up often enough so I find that I am always installing packages from source for embedded software work, and I’m not certain actually that the Quartus issues I see are Ubuntu specific. I notice for example, that others are having problems installing the SIV device files on 15.0. I also see the hang in the PLL mega-wizard, but that doesn’t appear to be Ubuntu specific either.