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12 years ago

SignalTap II won't recognize recompile

Hi All, I have an instance of signaltap I've been working with in my design for the last couple weeks. Last Friday I recompiled the project after a design change and now signaltap won't recogn...
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9 years ago

Instead of recreating the SignalTap file, which can be quite an amount of work try the following:

Close SignalTap

Open the .stp file in an editor

Look for the line "<instance enabled="true" entity_name=...."

If the entity_name is anything else than "sld_signaltap", e.g. it is prefixed by something, this can be the problem. Replace it by entity_name="sld_signaltap".

Save the stp file and recompile the project. Now you should see in the Quartus Hierarchy view the instance "sld_signaltap:<instance_name>" and everything should work