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New ContributorQuartus 19.2 Ubuntu 16.04 stuck generating HDL
For some reason Quartus keeps getting stuck generating HDL - the progress bar states "Done reading input file" and the last message in the log is an info message reading "Finished: Create HDL design files for synthesis". I can't shut the window, if I hit the stop button it greys out and nothing happens - all the while a background Java process is still doing *something* on one of the CPU cores.
This is highly frustrating when trying to generate a design and there are no apparent error messages to detail what is going amiss.
Any and all suggestions are appreciated, thanks.
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RBish3I have found the issue - the HDL generation process is munching RAM - my system is only running with 16GB. When the Java process runs out of RAM it generates a log file in the project directory stating as such but Quartus just freezes and does nothing. Should probably have a hook to Quartus to notify the user of the problem and shut down smoothly.
KennyT_alteraSuper Contributor
Hi, are you using Quartus version pro edition or standard edition? what device that you were using?
- KennyT_altera
any update?
- RBish3
Pro 19.2 - Arria 10 GX Dev Kit is my target. I can confirm that with a system RAM upgrade there are no further issues.
- KennyT_altera
Are you using windows system? Windows 10? If you press ctrl +alt+delete would be able to close(end task) the quartus?
- RBish3
Ubuntu 16.04. I can kill Quartus and related Java processes yes. I imagine the result would be essentially the same on Windows if the system runs out of RAM.
- KennyT_altera
I will file enhancement to our engineering to have an error if the ram is not sufficient. Thnaks
