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Patrick77
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5 years ago

My First HPS error

Hi, I'm new to FPGA SOC. I'm following the user manual and get stuck when doing My_First_HPS project. When I tried to generate the executable file with the given makefile, there is an error say...
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5 years ago

@Patrick77
Any luck there? If it helps - I am having the same issue. Reinstalling the tools for the third time, searching for the missing file in an entire filesystem (so I eliminate path questions) and no success.

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Patrick77
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5 years ago

Hi MV,

Sorry for the late response. I don’t know if you have solved it yet.
It seems that v20.1 is not very stable so my solution is very simple: just use Quartus v18.1 instead of v20.1. Everything works fine after that.
Hope this works for you as well. **bleep** luck.

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    MV
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    5 years ago

    Hi @Patrick77 ,

    Not too late - trying to solve some independent issues (understand how to communicate with the FPGA) so I didn't make much progress.
    I have installing Quartus in Ubuntu VM on my list but perhaps I will try Quartus 18.x first as you suggest.

    Thanks - M

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    5 years ago

    I embarked on the Quartus18.1 route and things got better. Even more so after I moved over to Ubuntu 18LTS as the OS (running in VirtualBox on Windows machine).

    Not sure if it can be attributed to the virtualization (giving more cores than Quartus seems to handle) but the compile times ate more than 2x longer. However, things seem to be (mostly) working.

    @Patrick77 : Thanks for the pointer.