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BertRAMAerts
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4 years ago
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Quartus Prime Lite 21.1 on Ubuntu 21.10 Questa does not start

My laptop is running Ubuntu 21.10. I just installed Quartus Prime Lite 21.1 which no longer includes ModelSim Starter Edition but Questa Intel FPGA Starter Edition instead. According to https://w...
  • BertRAMAerts's avatar
    BertRAMAerts
    4 years ago

    Solved by editing the desktop file:
    Edit /home/bert/Desktop/Quartus (Quartus Prime 21.1) Lite Edition.desktop
    Exec=env LM_LICENSE_FILE=/home/bert/1-V4I9CH_License.dat /home/bert/intelFPGA_lite/21.1/quartus/bin/quartus --64bit

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BertRAMAerts
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4 years ago

Solved by editing the desktop file:
Edit /home/bert/Desktop/Quartus (Quartus Prime 21.1) Lite Edition.desktop
Exec=env LM_LICENSE_FILE=/home/bert/1-V4I9CH_License.dat /home/bert/intelFPGA_lite/21.1/quartus/bin/quartus --64bit

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    CXHernandez
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    3 years ago

    Thanks a lot

    I have done exactly as you suggested BUT this is what I get:

    Unable to checkout a viewer license necessary for use of the Questa Intel Starter FPGA Edition graphical user interface. Vsim is closing

    This is what in my case I have in my ~/Desktop/'Quartus (Quartus Prime 21.1.0) Lite Edition.desktop'

    Exec=env LM_LICENSE_File=/home/cesar/bin/intelFPGA_lite/21.1.0/questa_fse/LR-075740_License.dat /home/cesar/bin/intelFPGA_lite/21.1.0/quartus/bin/quartus --64bi

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      BertRAMAerts
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      3 years ago

      I am now running Quartus Prime Lite 21.1.1, since July.

      The trick still works for me.

      Two remarks:

      • is your license file expired? Just request a new license and try again
      • probably copy/paste error but at the end of your line the 't' is missing in --64bit
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        roboknave
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        2 years ago

        @CXHernandez I had the issue you were having. Their does seem to be an issue where Questa ONLY looks at LM_LICENSE_FILE to find *ITS* license file. To solve this, I specify the Quartus license using the dialog box's "License File" entry and specify the Questa license file using LM_LICENSE_FILE. If you have managed to get BOTH licenses in the same file, you MIGHT be able to specify JUST that license file in the LM_LICENSE_FILE variable, but it does not seem to be the case since you are getting a license error. Questa, I think was ALSO supposed to look at MGLS_LICENSE_FILE, but it appears not to ever look at this. I can't tell you how much of a problem this caused us when we were trying to initially run the simulator, only to find out that it supposedly couldn't check out a license (we do have a license server, so I point Quartus to that and currently point Questa to a self-generated license). We had a full license for modelsim, way back, and it didn't expire, but it doesn't work anymore it seems. At any rate, we'll eventually sort out our license. Just a note, you appear to have LM_LICENSE_File instead of LM_LICENSE_FILE as well, which also doesn't work.

        @BertRAMAerts The issue I seem to be having is getting Quartus to compile the simulation library under Ubuntu 20.04. It appears Intel isn't willing to support this, but now it appears someone had success. I kept running into issues where vlog would not process the encrypted IP. It seems to do the following:

        1) I open the dialog. I point the tool at "QuestaSim" and the executables location to the questa_fse/bin directory. I select the output directory then press "Start compilation". This always fails the first time and I have to modify the executables location to get it to take.

        2) Once the compile starts, it fails with "Macro `<protected> is undefined which then reports a syntax error in protected region.

        Did you run into these errors trying to build the simulation library? I am trying to build for a MAX10, which uses the file fiftyfivenm_atoms_ncrypt.v, which seems to be where this error appears?

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    MOD05
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    3 years ago

    Please kindly elaborate more on how you solved this issue.