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12 years ago

Which .stp file should be used for SignalTap in Quartus 13.0?

Quartus 13.0 generates 2 .stp files, e.g.: aaa.stp and aaa_auto_stripped.stp. When I tried to use aaa.stp with SignalTap, I got "instance not found" error. When I tried to use aaa_auto_str...
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12 years ago

I know all of this and I did compile the same design with Quartus 12.1 SP1 and SignalTaps works as expected in version 12.1 SP1.

I would like to use 13.0 because timing models in 12.1 SP1 are "preliminary" and timing results seem better in 13.0, plus there are issues with PCIe hard macro in 12.1 SP1. But it look like as usual the new version of Quartus is so buggy that it is unusable.