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Minahil
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1 year ago
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Quartus Prime 18.1 Fitter Crash

Quartus crashes during the fitter of this simple verilog code. I am using quartus prime lite 18.1 as per my university course requirements and am running it through arm windows 11 on MacBook Pro (M2 M...
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    Minahil
    1 year ago

    I was able to resolve the issue by using the Parallels VM; Quartus Prime 18.1 works fine, even in Windows 11. When I want to upload to my de1-soc board, I switch to my 2017 Intel Mac since USB Blaster 2 is not supported by ARM.

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sstrell
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1 year ago

You're trying to run 7 year old software in a virtualized operating system on what is essentially an ARM processor. You're lucky you can even start Quartus let alone attempt a compilation. The error says you are using Windows 10 as well, not Windows 11, so which is it? If you are indeed running Windows 11, Quartus 18.1 is not compatible with that. You would definitely need to use a newer version.

There are too many non-supported factors in play here. At the very least, use a newer version of Quartus (23.1 is the latest I believe for the Lite edition).