Failed to launch MegaWizard™ Plug-In Manager. Triple-Speed Ethernet Intel® FPGA IP v18.0 and could not be found in the specified library paths

Description

In the Intel® Quartus® Prime Standard Edition Software versions 18.0 and 18.1, when you open the MegaWizard™ for editing, you may see the error message “Failed to launch MegaWizard™ Plug-In Manager. Triple-Speed Ethernet Intel® FPGA IP V18.0 could not be found in the specified library paths”.

Resolution

To work around this problem in the Intel® Quartus® Prime Standard Edition Software versions 18.0 and 18.1, follow the steps below.

1. Locate  altera_eth_tse_wizard.lst in your Intel® FPGA install directory.

    For Linux System:         /linux64/ip/altera/ethernet/altera_eth_tse/altera_eth_tse_wizard.lst

    For Windows System:   /ip/altera/ethernet/altera_eth_tse/altera_eth_tse_wizard.lst

2. Open altera_eth_tse_wizard.lst, add following sentence in a new line after <ALIAS>Triple-Speed Ethernet v17.0</ALIAS> and save.    

    <ALIAS>Triple-Speed Ethernet Intel FPGA IP v18.0</ALIAS>

This problem is fixed beginning with the Intel® Quartus® Prime Standard Edition Software version 19.1.