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13 years ago

Quartus 12.1 crashing alot

Has anybody else experienced many, many crashes with the new release? I have had about a dozen at least in the last few days(3 just today). All last year I probably had 5 between 11.0 through 12.0 SP2.

It will crash when it is just sitting still. I'm off working in another program and all of a sudden Quartus just crashes with an error report that seems to be different each time. It crashes when I'm running signal tap and it crashes when I'm compiling.

It does this on two different machines, both running W7 64 bit and on several different projects. Nothing repeatable, just random crashes when it feels like it.

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    13 years ago

    I have a lot of crashing using Chip Planner (12.1 Build 177) on my work machine, I found it can be avoided by deleting the Report->Design Partition and just double click to re-generate them.

    On my laptop (12.1sp1 Build 243) with separate software Quartus/Device files downloaded from Altera , I get immediate crash whenever I try to load an existing project or creating new project... basically nothing works there. Anyone has the same issue?
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    13 years ago

    Any way you can narrow the problem? What do you mean by crashing? Is there a message? Any particular tool that you use often? I see some people are referring to SignalTap.

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    13 years ago

    12.1 and 12.1 SP1 are barely usable for me (web edition in Win7 64) just for routine builds. I get internal errors during fitting that kill the process and dump out a stack trace. I have to cross my fingers with each build, because it's only around a 50% success rate. The errors are repeatable, but they come and go inexplicably with minor changes to code or timing constraints. Last time I filed a service request regarding a Quartus error Altera told me to buy the full version, so I assume there isn't anything I can do in 12.x without shelling out money. Removing db directories between builds doesn't make a difference. Archiving and extracting a "fresh" version of a project doesn't help, either.

    Everything builds fine in 11.1 SP2.
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    13 years ago

    It is OK on Linux 12.1 build 177 32-bit

    crashed couple times maybe over couple weeks, but nothing major
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    13 years ago

    12.1 sp1 seems to have fixed most of the crashes. I haven't had any since I upgraded. But only time will tell......

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    12 years ago

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    I have a lot of crashing using Chip Planner (12.1 Build 177) on my work machine, I found it can be avoided by deleting the Report->Design Partition and just double click to re-generate them.

    On my laptop (12.1sp1 Build 243) with separate software Quartus/Device files downloaded from Altera , I get immediate crash whenever I try to load an existing project or creating new project... basically nothing works there. Anyone has the same issue?

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    Hi,

    Did you get rid of the problem that you faced on your laptop? I'm facing the same issue of device selection after installing device support package seperately.

    Regards,

    Vinod
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    12 years ago

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    Did you get rid of the problem that you faced on your laptop? I'm facing the same issue of device selection after installing device support package seperately.

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    13.x seems completely stable for me.

    Dan