JuanEscobedo
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1 year agoQuartus does not generate files needed for Questa simulation seemingly at random
I have Quartus 23.1 installed on a Windows 11 machine and I'm trying to simulate a module that contains several Altera IPs and I am having some intermittent issues.
Seemingly at random, when I start the simulation from Quartus after a successful full build and synthesis of the project, Questa will complains the .vo file of an IP is missing.
Rebuilding the project doesn't seem to do anything once the file is missing. Deleting temporary build files, restarting the computer, or deleting the .qip file and recreating the IP sometimes helps, but then sometimes another IP becomes the problem.
I have double checked all the licenses (for Quartus, IPs, and Questa) and they are all present and valid.
I believe the Quartus and Questa installs, as well as licensing, are all correct since I can simulate designs without IPs, or sometimes even designs with IPs, correctly and without issues.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Let me know if any additional information would help troubleshoot this issue.
Thanks beforehand,
Juan
Seemingly at random, when I start the simulation from Quartus after a successful full build and synthesis of the project, Questa will complains the .vo file of an IP is missing.
Rebuilding the project doesn't seem to do anything once the file is missing. Deleting temporary build files, restarting the computer, or deleting the .qip file and recreating the IP sometimes helps, but then sometimes another IP becomes the problem.
I have double checked all the licenses (for Quartus, IPs, and Questa) and they are all present and valid.
I believe the Quartus and Questa installs, as well as licensing, are all correct since I can simulate designs without IPs, or sometimes even designs with IPs, correctly and without issues.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Let me know if any additional information would help troubleshoot this issue.
Thanks beforehand,
Juan
Hi Juan,
This is known issue before and had been bypassed with workaround. Please run only Analysis & Synthesis to perform RTL simulation instead of full compilation.
Btw, RTL simulation actually needs only Analysis & Synthesis will do.
Thanks,
Regards,
Sheng