Why doesn’t the P-Tile Debug Toolkit work in the Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition Software version 21.2 ?

Description

Due to the problems below in the Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition Software version 21.2, the P-Tile Debug Toolkit does not work.        

• The P-Tile Debug Toolkit in the Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro software version 21.2 only works on Linux* Operating System (OS) with GCC version 2.12 or higher.
  • You can check the GCC version to run the command "ldd --version" in the shell.
• Some library files needed to run the P-Tile Debug Toolkit are not included in the Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Software version 21.2.

Resolution

To work around this problem in the Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Software version 21.2,  follow the steps below to install the patch and library files.

1. Download and install Patch 0.23
   • Download the patch Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition version 21.2 Patch 0.23 for Windows (.exe)
   • Download the patch Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition version 21.2 Patch 0.23 for Linux (.run)
   • Download the Readme for Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition version 21.2 Patch 0.23 (.txt)
2. Download the P-Tile Debug Toolkit library files (link)
3. Create a new directory named pySV at the folder below.
   QUARTUS_ROOTDIR/../ip/altera/intel_pcie/ptile/toolkit/
4. Extract the zip file to a temporary directory.
5. Copy all contents in the extracted directory into the pySV directory created in Step 3.

This problem is fixed starting with the Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition Software version 21.3.