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NIOS tutorial for the Stratix1S10

I'm trying to follow the NIOS tutorial for the Stratix1S10. At one point, page 16 of the 'tt_nios_hw_stratix_1s10.pdf' I should start the SOPC builder. A quick console window opens, to fast to recognize anything, and vanishes. There is no error message, nowhere. There is no SOPCBuilder as it should be according to the pdf. I browswed the SOPC Builder solutions in the knowledge base.

From this FAQ I could gleam that the SOPC builder has to be installed. How can I check whether it was installed, and if not, where is this SOPC Builder to be found ?

I'm using Quartus2 Build 176 02/04/2003 SJ Full Version plus the SP1

Rene

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It appears that you have a problem with your installation.

Not even in the message window? View->Utility Windows->Messages if you don't have it visible.

There should be a directory containing a bin directory which contains a file called sopc_builder (which is a perl script). I don't know how Quartus will search for sopc_builder because both under Windows and Solaris I have multiple revisions of sopc builder and Quartus is using the most recent one.

You should have received a CD containing the NIOS 3.0 release with SOPC Builder (version 2.8) and Quartus II.

Petter

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Petter Gustad

To find out where SOPC Builder is:

Run "regedit32" from Start menu/Run.

Look for the Software/Altera/SOPC Builder branch. This will tell you all of the currently installed versions of SOPC Builder, and also which one is currently active.

I hope I got the branch right .. I don't have my work PC in front of me at the moment.

One other thing: Do you also have a separate Cygwin installed? This can seriously screw things up. I've done this and got the symptoms you have, and it took awhile to debug.

HTH,

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Peter Sommerfeld

HKCU\Software\Altera Corporation\Quartus II\2.2 has no SOPC section HKLM\Software\Altera Corporation\SOPC Builder contains

SOPC_Builder_Home REG_SZ: c:\altera\excalibur\SOPC_builder

which is right.

Cygwin ?

HKCU\software\cygnus solutions\cygwin is mainly empty

HKLM\software\cygnus solutions\cygwin includes a pointer the Altera directory tree

HKLM\System\controlset001\control\session manager\environment HKLM\System\controlset002\control\session manager\environment HKLM\System\currentcontrolset\control\session manager\environment have a path including the altera cygwin

HKU\..whatever.. \software\cygnus solutions\cygwin is mainly empty

A file/directory search for cygwin turns up a few more cygwin.dll. Since I don't need them anymore, I remove them. Nothing changes. Hmm.

Thanks for the input anyway

Rene

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Rene Tschaggelar

Rene, please use mysupport.altera.com or the hotline. I have also forwarded this to the relevant group inside Altera.

- Subroto Datta Altera Corp.

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Subroto Datta

Ah, yes, thanks. I actually did that at the same time as I posted here. There it is running under user firstname/secondname = A/A. The N-th re-log-on is shorter than the first.

Rene

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Rene Tschaggelar

Thanks this far for the messages.

The SOPC builder appears to be correctly installed. There is no java running, at least it was not detectable. The is no other cygwin either.

From the taskmanager it appears the perl.exe is somehow failing. It comes upon the SOPC button and goes right away.

Rene

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Hi, As I did have some strange experiences with SOPC_BUILDER that look like a problem you actually have. My first mistake was to place the SOPC_BUILDER at some place where it would have make sence. Don't do that. Keep the suggested directory. Second mistake was, I uninstalled the SOPC_BUILDER and reinstalled it to different directories... There ist somewhere a file where the path to SOPC_BUILDER must be set correctly. Unfortunatly I don't rember which file it was. Third mistake, Cygwin was not installed. There is an cygwin enviroment delivered with SOPC_BUILDER but it did not work for some reason on my computer. Fourth mistake, I did not install the perl program delivered with cygwin. The one delivered with SOPC_BUILDER was not working. Fifth mistake, when installing cygwin, always select that your files are in DOS LF mode. Otherwise you'll get compilation errors... I did get them anyway but that's a different story. Last hint, make sure your enviroment variables are all correctly set.

Good luck, Karsten

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Karsten Becker

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