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17 years ago

Setting up BeMicro Cyclone III development Board

Hi,

I'm trying to run a basic application using my BeMicro Cyclone III development board.

But I've got some errors when I'm trying to set up my SOPC, using SOPC builder tool (Quartus > Tools > SOPC builder...).

The first one is the following, which appears when I add an ext_ram_16 peripheric :

Error: set_module_property: INTERNAL not allowed for EModuleProperty, must be in {[DESCRIPTION, NAME, VERSION, MODULE_TCL_FILE, MODULE_DIRECTORY, GROUP, AUTHOR, ICON_PATH, DISPLAY_NAME, LIBRARIES, DATASHEET_URL, TOP_LEVEL_HDL_FILE, TOP_LEVEL_HDL_MODULE, INSTANTIATE_IN_SYSTEM_MODULE, EDITABLE, VALIDATION_CALLBACK, EDITOR_CALLBACK, GENERATION_CALLBACK, ELABORATION_CALLBACK]}

I've got a bench of errors like that (see Attachments).

Thank for your help.

Julien

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    17 years ago

    That is a very pretty window manager ... which OS are you running?

    Jake
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    17 years ago

    I'm running 64-bit windows 7. I already fixed the issue with the driver compatibility.

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    17 years ago

    Hi,

    works for me using Quartus 9.1 and Windows 7 / 32 bits.

    I used project for version 9.x (.\bemicro\designs\NIOS\bemicro_example_nios_01_90)

    Regards.
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    17 years ago

    To my knowledge both 64-bit Vista and Windows 7 are unsupported.

    This is a typical difference between software and hardware engineers. Software engineers will typically have the latest and greatest or even experimental OS on their machines. They'll spend hours on end trying to get unsupported apps to work on unsupported OS's just for the fun of it. IT people tend to fall into this category as well.

    To the typical hardware engineer, the OS has only one purpose and that is to support the applications. It just has to work. The hardware engineer will typically be years behind and reluctant to change.

    So the recommendation ... if you're just having some fun, carry on and let us know how and when you get it working. If you really want to use the tools, switch back to a supported OS until the rest of the world catches up with your ambitions.

    :) Jake
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    17 years ago

    Thanks guy, you're right. For the moment, I don't have so much time to look for a solution, so I've installed 32-bit version of windows 7. Now, it's working great !

    Thank you very much everybody.

    Julien
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    16 years ago

    --- Quote Start ---

    I'm running 64-bit windows 7. I already fixed the issue with the driver compatibility.

    --- Quote End ---

    Can you please let me know how to get the BeMicro Cyclone iii eval board working on Win 7 64bit which is my new machine (I miss XP Pro).

    I would appreciate the help very much,

    Thanks,

    Dale
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    16 years ago

    --- Quote Start ---

    Can you please let me know how to get the BeMicro Cyclone iii eval board working on Win 7 64bit which is my new machine (I miss XP Pro).

    I would appreciate the help very much,

    Thanks,

    Dale

    --- Quote End ---

    Scratch that. I gave up on the Win7 64bit machine that IT gave me.

    However I am now stuck with xp pro 64 bit , good luck getting 32 bit hardware now. So far all my development applications have installed with the exception that I can not get the USB Blaster driver to install properly which seems to be required to support the BeMicro eval board.

    - When I run the setup file under the BeMicro\programmer folder, the install process seems to work to install the jtag_hw_arrow_usb_blaster.dll

    When I check out drivers under Device Manager I see 2 drivers installed:

    - Arrow USB-Blaster Port A

    - Arrow USB-Blaster Port B

    - However, when I work through the BeMicro tutorial and get to the 5.3 section part where it wants me to click Hardware Setup and select Arrow-USB-Blaster in Quartus (I am using quartus v10 sp1), the only option I see is "No Hardware"

    I have to get results rolling fast, can someone help me get past the XP Pro 64 bit USB Blaster driver Quartus v10 recognition issue.

    Thank you very much,

    Dale
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    15 years ago

    --- Quote Start ---

    Scratch that. I gave up on the Win7 64bit machine that IT gave me.

    However I am now stuck with xp pro 64 bit , good luck getting 32 bit hardware now. So far all my development applications have installed with the exception that I can not get the USB Blaster driver to install properly which seems to be required to support the BeMicro eval board.

    - When I run the setup file under the BeMicro\programmer folder, the install process seems to work to install the jtag_hw_arrow_usb_blaster.dll

    When I check out drivers under Device Manager I see 2 drivers installed:

    - Arrow USB-Blaster Port A

    - Arrow USB-Blaster Port B

    - However, when I work through the BeMicro tutorial and get to the 5.3 section part where it wants me to click Hardware Setup and select Arrow-USB-Blaster in Quartus (I am using quartus v10 sp1), the only option I see is "No Hardware"

    I have to get results rolling fast, can someone help me get past the XP Pro 64 bit USB Blaster driver Quartus v10 recognition issue.

    Thank you very much,

    Dale

    --- Quote End ---

    Same problem here :( Any solution found yet?
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    15 years ago

    I needed to move to the latest BeMicro II board, it has a driver that supports Win XP Pro 64bit. However I have found the technical support for Altera is limited, I am in the process of moving to Lattice as a backup, as questions are answered too slowly with Altera. The schematic edit part of Quartus is better than Lattice Diamond though, but if you can't get the design working due to lack of support, then it doesn't help much :-)