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18 years ago

SOPC Components not found in Quartus 7.2

I recently upgraded to Quartus 7.1 and went through the pain of migrating all my SOPC components to the new tcl format. The components were all in a library pointed to by the global libraries path.

I open the project in 7.2 and SOPC cannot find these components any more!

My paths are something like this .. 

c:\branch7.2\mylib\--component1\hdl
                  \--component2\hdl
                  \--etc.

With v7.1 I placed an empty file .recurs in the c:\branch7.2\mylib directory which appeared to allow SOPC to recurs the subdirs properly. Therefore only needing one path for all my library components. But in 7.2 the SOPC tools does not find them any more.

I've tried adding the paths for c:\branch7.2\mylib as well as c:\branch7.2\mylib\component1 etc. in both project and global libraries paths as well as in SOPC "tools->options->ip search path" with no joy.

Can anybody help me?

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    18 years ago

    yes i have the same problem with 7.2

    I found it only works if the custom components are in a sub directory of where the sopc project is located.

    There where no spaces or anything in my paths so that wasn't it.

    Anyway I now get Subversion to pull the custom components into the project directory so I can share them between projects and still maintain the one source code base.
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    18 years ago

    I have a project at the moment that I has custom IP in a half dozon different directories (none in the project directory) and I have no problems getting them is sopc builder.

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    18 years ago

    to be more accurate, they worked in sopc and quartus to some extent.

    using the software tools build chain for the nios II it failed big time.

    The tools told me to set the paths in SOPC, bu they where already set.
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    18 years ago

    Thank you rmorley for the suggestion. I do not use spaces and have tried . and _ and - separators and removing these separators altogether in my paths with no success (i.e. only alphanumeric characters). How do you get your library components to work in 7.2?

    My libraries appear fine in 7.1 but cannot find them in SOPC 7.2.

    Thank you jcn for your response. I wish to share the libraries across multiple projects and therefore having them as a subdirectory of one of the projects is not a solution unfortunately.
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    18 years ago

    Add a file named "library.ipx" to your "mylib" directory.

    library.ipx :

    <?xml version="1.0"?>

    <library>

    <index file="component1/component1_hw.tcl" />

    <index file="component2/component2_hw.tcl" />

    ...

    ...

    </library>

    Add your libray path in SOPC-Builder :

    Tools->Options->IP Search Path

    Now you should see your components !
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    18 years ago

    Thank you very much Klaus, SOPC now finds the components but I get all kinds of extra errors I'm afraid. Any ideas why each of my components now produce the following error :

    Error: TestComponent_0: Error (10670): Verilog HDL or VHDL error: cannot create XML design interface for design file TestComponent.vhd. File: C:/SCM/Branch-Quartus-v7-1/lib/sopc/TestComponent/hdl/TestComponent.vhd Line: 1

    Error: TestComponent_0: Quartus II Analysis & Synthesis was unsuccessful. 1 error, 0 warnings

    Error: TestComponent_0: Processing ended: Mon Oct 22 16:26:15 2007

    Error: TestComponent_0: Elapsed time: 00:00:04

    Error: TestComponent_0: Failed to analyze port width.

    If I copy the components to the \ip subdir of my project I don't get this error.

    The library.ipx file is located in C:/SCM/Branch-Quartus-v7-1/lib/sopc
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    18 years ago

    Disable all parameters (_hw.tcl --># add_parameter youParameter).

    Sometime i get the same ERROR if i am using STD_LOGIC(_VECTOR) Parameters.