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AIles
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6 years ago

Quartus Prime 18.1.0 Build 625 09/12/2018 SJ Lite Edition (Cyclone V) - Why would the Fitter stop working on a known-good design?

After a 5-week hiatus, the fitter hangs without reporting an error, on a known-working project. There is no communication past the introductory "170189 Fitter placement preparation operations beginn...
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6 years ago

Okay...I got past it. Tried many things.

At one point, 30 minutes into a 10-minute Fitter operation, I plugged a USB thumb drive into the computer and PRESTO, the Fitter started spewing status messages and a successful compile shortly completed.

My theory is that there was an unsuccessful thumb drive dismount operation pending in Windows and for some reason Quartus got stuck on that and was able to proceed when Windows cleared that condition in order to mount the freshly plugged thumb drive. Notably, there is no component of the current Quartus project that has anything to do with a thumb drive...