niosii ethernet std design 3c25 neek critical warnings

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Hi, 

 When I build the NIOS2 Ethernet Standard Design for the 3C25 Neek I see some critical warnings (see below), and I was curious if there are any patches available for this issue, or perhaps there is someplace I can obtain the missing 'sdram_phy_ddr_timing.sdc' file?  Also, when I write, and then read back, the SGDMA control registers using the base address in the generated file 'system.h', I don't appear to successfully modify this register. Closer examination reveals that the macro ETHERNET_SUBSYSTEM_SGDMA_TX_BASE specifies a base address of 0x800a440. In QSYS I see that the "ethernet_subsystem.ethernet_bridge" is at 0x800a000-0x800a7ff and that in the ethernet subsystem "sgdma_tx.csr" is at 0x440-47f. So that probably indicates that QSYS is reporting also the same base address, and therefore I am pretty clueless as to why the register isn't responding in code and also when manipu;lating it in gdb. I do use code like this for accessing the memory mapped registers bypassing the cache (which does work for example with the Altera TSE registers).  static inline uint32_t ioRead32 ( const uint32_t * const pSrc ) {  return __builtin_ldwio ( ( void * ) pSrc ); }  static inline void ioWrite32 ( uint32_t * const pDest, const uint32_t newVal ) {  __builtin_stwio ( pDest, newVal ); }   Critical Warning: No exact pin location assignment(s) for 1 pins of 113 total pins  Info: Pin flash_a[0] not assigned to an exact location on the device Critical Warning: Synopsys Design Constraints File file not found: 'sdram_phy_ddr_timing.sdc'. A Synopsys Design Constraints File is required by the TimeQuest Timing Analyzer to get proper timing constraints. Without it, the Compiler will not properly optimize the design. Critical Warning: Synopsys Design Constraints File file not found: 'sdram_phy_ddr_timing.sdc'. A Synopsys Design Constraints File is required by the TimeQuest Timing Analyzer to get proper timing constraints. Without it, the Compiler will not properly optimize the design. Critical Warning: Timing requirements not met Critical Warning: Timing requirements not met Critical Warning: Timing requirements not met

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PS I am using Quartus II version 11.0 SP1

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I notice that this file does exist in the Ethernet standard design 

 niosii-ethernet-standard-3c25/eth_std_main_system/synthesis/submodules/eth_std_main_system_sdram_phy_ddr_timing.sdc

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and I see this at line 288 of niosii_ethernet_standard_3c25.qsf 

 set_global_assignment-name SDC_FILE sdram_phy_ddr_timing.sdc

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hm ... I notice that the quartus settings dialog has a line like this 

 eth_std_main_system/submodules/eth_std_main_system_sdram_phy_ddr_timing.sdc  and also a line like this  sdram_phy_ddr_timing.sdc  so maybe this second line is superfluous?

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I figured out the sgdma ctrl register write/readback issue. I reread the Altera doc carefully, and the offsets for stat, ctrl, nxt are 0, 4, and 8 respectively. These offsets look by coincidence like byte offsets for sequential, contiguous 32 bit words, but in fact they are actually 32 bit word offsets. The doc is actually correct, and I need to read more carefully in the future.

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Still stuck attempting to resolve this error (which prevents timing from being made).  

 Critical Warning: Synopsys Design Constraints File file not found: 'sdram_phy_ddr_timing.sdc'. A Synopsys Design Constraints File is required by the TimeQuest Timing Analyzer to get proper timing constraints. Without it, the Compiler will not properly optimize the design.  I am using the ethernet standard design unmodified. The file in question does exist under a different name - eth_std_main_system_sdram_phy_ddr_timing.sdc.  When I search the entire design I find only this in a hif file. This file _does_ exist so I don't know how to proceed.  lib_eth_std_main_system eth_std_main_system|synthesis|submodules|eth_std_main_system_sdram_phy_ddr_timing.sdc lib_eth_std_main_system

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installing Quartus 11.1 sp2 appears to resolve this issue