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VROGE2
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6 years ago
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Quartus Prime Lite Quitting Unexpectedly During Fitter

I am trying to integrate UART (RS-232 Serial Port) Intel FPGA IP into my project on a DE10-Nano with a Cyclone V SoC. I have followed the CVSOV UART example from the design store and I have gotten to...
  • VROGE2's avatar
    VROGE2
    6 years ago

    I was able to get the project to compile after decreasing the total memory size in the On-chip Memory IP in platform designer. I decreased the memory from about 130000 bytes to 100000 bytes and this seemed to work.

    Van

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AnandRaj_S_Intel
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6 years ago

Hi Van,

Try by deleting incremental_db & db folders.

Also close all the application running.

Regenerate the platform designer system and integrate on top and compile.

Also do share your design.

Regards

Anand

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    VROGE2
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    6 years ago

    I had already tried to delete the db folder but I had not tried to delete the incremental _db folder. I did make some changes in the platform designer in the on chip memory IP. The changes were that I changed the name of the IP's in the platform designer to follow the Max Baud Rate Cyclone V SOC Design Example and I changed the On chip memory initialization so that it does not initialize memory content. this allowed the program to compile but It does not allow for the use of the nios ii code I am using.

    Here is my design as it stands now:

    I altered the code in NIOS to remove some errors in the hex file, regenerated the platform designer, and re-added the platform designer qip fle and qsys file to my project. The on chip memory is still set to initialize my custom nios project and quartus still stops unexpectedly.

    I can't post code at the moment because it contains items which are proprietary and I am awaiting approval to post.

    Van

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    VROGE2
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    6 years ago

    I have gotten approval and have modified my original code to replace the proprietary sections with a counter. I still get the same error during the compilation

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      AnandRaj_S_Intel
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      6 years ago

      Hi,

      Not able to replicate the scenario with the project above.

      Try by deleting incremental_db & db folders. also check original code.

      Regards

      Anand

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      VROGE2
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      6 years ago

      With that same project I still get the same error as shown below. To be sure I re downloaded the project from the file I posted above. I have deleted the db and incremental_db and I have tried compiling with no other programs running in the background. The only thing that I have been able to do to stop this error from happening is to comment out line 18 in the top level V file or to go into the platform designer in the on chip memory module under memory initialization and un-check "Enable non-default initialization file" and "Initialize memory content". My assumption is that in order for the UART IP to work I need those two boxes to be checked. Is that assumption correct? Could there be any potential problems in where I have it saved or possibly my compilation settings as well? We are running the same version of quartus.

      Van