Synthesis Problems with Quartus II Version 6.x

Jul 19, 2006 1 Replies

Dear all, I recently jumped to Quartus 6.0 (from former 5.x) and experienced that the design would not compile correctly. I am working with a Cyclone II device and (in this case) have the problems in beneath a controller for an AD-converter which is not read correctly. Doing a compilation with the former 5.x Version produces valid fpga code.



I did not contact the support for this yet because I cannot 100% describe the problem and locate the misbehaviour in the data chain. I also cannot pas away the code to let somebody else find it. Currently I am about to use signal tap to locate it, but have low time to spent on this, however.



I have similar parts of the design /channels several times in the code, and other fragments work, however. It seems to be a problem of a particular part of the FPGA code, which might not be interpreted the same way in the both versions.



Anybody else discovered genereal probs with the new 6.0 of Quartus?



Have you installed service pack 1 for version 6? If you haven't, tech support will prbably have you do this first.

I haven't used 6 yet but, when I upgraded from 4 to 5, I had the optimizer reduce a state machine to nothing because the newer version identified an ambiguous state and poof. I'm not saying this is your problem but examine your project settings, see if it is doing anything differently. Put an emphasis on optimizing. And look at the warnings

Derek

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