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interesting. does Quartus fail to launch? are error messages printed to the console? have you reported this to Altera in an SR?
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Quartus fails to launch (as does every other tool, quartus starts other tools sometimes).
There are errors to the console. To give an example, say you have a quad-core cpu, where one core runs on 3GHz, and three cores run on 800MHz. Then starting *any* tool (including quartus itself) results in something this:
/opt/altera/10.1p/quartus/bin/qcmd
export: 137: 3000.00: bad variable name
The error message will differ when the cores are running on different frequencies (obviously).
As to reporting this to Altera, no, I did not. Since I'm a free/webversion user, I don't have a support contract, and don't really know where to report problems like this. Any suggestions?
OTOH, I would find it prudent if Altera had at least one guy/gall watching these forums and picking things like this up (and then implicitly turn them into an internal trouble ticket). They don't seem to be doing that, or are they?
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