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SZack
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6 years ago

Why is Signal Probe not supported for Arria 10 in Quartus Standard?

All other product families supported by Quartus Standard can use Signal Probe. Also the 18.1 Quartus Standard User Guide says "The Signal Probe feature supports the Arria series, Cyclone series, MAX...
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KennyT_altera
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6 years ago

After checking:

On Quartus Prime standard, Signal Probe support is built upon Rapid Recompile feature. For Quartus Standard version, Rapid Recompile is only supported for Stratix V, Arria V and Cyclone V devices as you can see on the following comparison table between software editions.

As Rapid Recompile is not enabled for Arria 10 family on Quartus Prime standard.

Any reason that you like to use this feature? What I can do is submit an enhancement to the developer to bring back this feature. But it will be on the Pro edition of Quartus as our developer are now focusing much on the Pro ediiton development.

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    SZack
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    6 years ago
    Hi Kenny, Because of these limitations in Quartus Standard I’ve convinced the customer to switch to the Pro version. It’s just that the documentation in the handbook was misleading because it says Signal Probe is available for all Arria devices – it didn’t mention the caveat about Arria 10. As an fyi, I personally think the implementation in Pro is not as good as in Standard. It’s much more intuitive in the Standard version. I don’t see what the advantage is to the Pro implementation. Thanks and be well, Steve