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ABerg28
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5 years ago

DE0-NANO Quartus Lite 19.1 NIOS II Project error

Hello, I'm dead in the water now. I've been following a YouTube tutorial to build a simple adder program to run on the NIOS II in a Cyclone IV on a DE0-NANO board. https://www.youtube.c...
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5 years ago

can you check you have WSL1 installed.


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ABerg28
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5 years ago

The solution is very convoluted. The problem is that with Quartus II version 19.1 and up, WSL was not included. There is a patch, but the patch is too onerous. I would have to install Ubuntu Linux and do some more stuff. I was advised that the best solution was to go back to earlier Quartus II versions before 19.1.

I installed 17.1 and it now works fine.

I think it would be nice if Intel asked an intern to create a support matrix of Quartus II versions and for each version, list what has improved or changed and what has been removed. And it gets worse. In the download page, Intel suggests that you should always get the latest version, but the page doesn't tell you what the consequences will be if you do.

Simple example: All the tutorials discuss how to use Qsys. OK, I'm following along with a tutorial. Where's Qsys? Its not there. Searched the web, nothing. Finally, as a guess, I tried Project Builder. Aha! They renamed Qsys to Project Builder, but apparently kept it a secret. Would it have hurt to put "Project Builder (Qsys)" on the drop down menu?

Thanks for your input.