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HEass1
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3 years ago

Quartus Pro programmer fails: "sof is incompatible".

Hi,

I recently installed Quartus Prime Pro 22.2 (using Win 10) and opened a project. I updated all the IP and re-compiled from the beginning, successfully generating an sof. There were no errors at this stage. I tried to program the part and received the following error:

"File xyz.sof is incompatible - xyz.sof is compiled by ACDS 22.2.0, please recompile design using ACDS 22.1 or later."

There seems to be a tool issue - 22.2.0 is the latest and is clearly later than 22.1.

I did find information about a possible problem with the reset release IP, but the solution was to recompile in a later Quartus version. Any ideas gratefully received.

Thanks.

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  • Farabi's avatar
    Farabi
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    3 years ago

    Hello,


    May I know what IP you try to compile? Do you have license for this IP?


    regards,

    Farabi


  • HEass1's avatar
    HEass1
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    3 years ago

    Hi,

    I have a simple design, instantiating the reset_release IP, one F-tile 25G NRZ PHY and the F-tile PLL. I believe I have the correct licenses to use those.

    Thanks.

  • HEass1's avatar
    HEass1
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    3 years ago

    After trying a lot of things I finally got the compile and programming to go through. I'm not 100% sure what fixed it, but I'm guessing that it was either that I manually regenerated (fully) all the IP, or that I removed a setting from the QSF file. The setting was:

    # Global setting
    # I saw a note in the F-tile user guide that inappropriately setting this might cause a config error (p52).
    # But that might just be if the power/gnd pins are tied off.
    #set_global_assignment -name PRESERVE_UNUSED_XCVR_CHANNEL ON

  • NurAiman_M_Intel's avatar
    NurAiman_M_Intel
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    3 years ago

    Thanks for sharing your findings. We are glad that you can now move forward with your design. I now transition this thread to community support. If you have a new question, feel free to open a new thread to get the support from Intel experts. Otherwise, the community users will continue to help you on this thread. Thank you.