Quartus II Assignments - Pins

Question

I am new in quartus and altera fpga's.

I have a Stratix III EP3SL150 and I'm runing quartus II 8.0 web edition and 11.1 web edition as well and in bouth of them I have the same problem.

Wen I load the example that came with the instalation "my first fpga program" to the board it runs ok.

When I folow the tutorial to create my self the program, the first problem is thet when I do Assignments -> device to pick the correct board the model exists bet it saying thar t it is not installed. I use one other board to continue the tutorial, one that the tutorial acepts and everything goes ok, I do processing -> start -> start analysis & elaboration and it is ok with no errors and no warnings. The problen apears when I do assignments -> pins it moves to the correct window has in tutorial but does not apear the I/O pins that I created in the schematic so I cant conect to the output pins of the fpga.

so the main questions are:

Is it possible to download the information for the stratix III EP3SL150 to quartus II?

Is it suposed to the free web edition to execute the "my first fpga program" tutorial?

altera_forum · Answer

The web edition of Quartus does not support Stratix devices.  Are you running on a development board of some sort?

altera_forum · Answer

Yes, I have Stratix EP3SL150 development boart to use at university and I instaled the altera software that came with it and got the web edition license on altera web page. I can load program to the board and it runs ok but I canot create program´s to it.

And one other thing I do not find normal is that I tried to create the tutorial for an existing board on quartus just for practice. I used Cyclone III EP3C120C780C7 and stil does not apear the node name of the I/O pins I created on the schematic in order for me to define the conections to the pinouts of the fpga in the "Pin Planer" window.

altera_forum · Answer

First you will not be able to compile a design to work in the Stratix III family using the web edition of the Quartus II tools. You will need to get a full license for the Quartus II tool to compile a design for the Stratix.

On your second issue. Did you at least run "Analysis & Elaboration" before you tried to assign I/O pins? If not you need to do so Processing -> Start -> Start Analysis & Elaboration". This is to build the database so that Quartus knows what the hierarchy looks like for your design along with the I/O pins.

Hope that helps

/Boris

altera_forum · Answer

Yes I did thats the previous step of the tutorial.

altera_forum · Answer

Try to compile the design to completion and see if you see the pins then

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