Quartus II 13.0 caught in infinite loop during compilation [12127]

Altera_Forum · ‎03-18-2014

Hey all,

I'm with one of the many University programs using the Cyclone II DE2 Board. Today, I finished working on a project, and after many rounds of debugging, it seemed like it would finally finish. However, at around 2% compilation, the compilation stops. The log currently says "12127 Elaborating entity "%name%" for the top level hierarchy." Compilation normally takes about three minutes, and this has been running for almost two hours now.

Here's the log:

Info: *******************************************************************Info: Running Quartus II 32-bit Analysis & Synthesis
	Info: Version 13.0.1 Build 232 06/12/2013 Service Pack 1 SJ Full Version
	Info: Processing started: Tue Mar 18 16:15:39 2014
	Info: Version 13.0.1 Build 232 06/12/2013 Service Pack 1 SJ Full Version
	Info: Processing started: Tue Mar 18 16:15:39 2014
Info: Command: quartus_map --read_settings_files=on --write_settings_files=off slc3 -c slc3
Info (20030): Parallel compilation is enabled and will use 4 of the 4 processors detected
Info (12021): Found 2 design units, including 1 entities, in source file slc3.vhd
	Info (12022): Found design unit 1: name-Behavioral
	Info (12023): Found entity 1: name
	Info (12022): Found design unit 1: name-Behavioral
	Info (12023): Found entity 1: name
Info (12021): Found 2 design units, including 1 entities, in source file mem2io.vhd
	Info (12022): Found design unit 1: Mem2IO-Behavioral
	Info (12023): Found entity 1: Mem2IO
	Info (12022): Found design unit 1: Mem2IO-Behavioral
	Info (12023): Found entity 1: Mem2IO
Info (12021): Found 2 design units, including 1 entities, in source file cpu.vhd
	Info (12022): Found design unit 1: CPU-Behavioral
	Info (12023): Found entity 1: CPU
	Info (12022): Found design unit 1: CPU-Behavioral
	Info (12023): Found entity 1: CPU
Info (12021): Found 2 design units, including 1 entities, in source file isdu.vhd
	Info (12022): Found design unit 1: ISDU-Behavioral
	Info (12023): Found entity 1: ISDU
	Info (12022): Found design unit 1: ISDU-Behavioral
	Info (12023): Found entity 1: ISDU
Info (12021): Found 2 design units, including 1 entities, in source file reg_16.vhd
	Info (12022): Found design unit 1: reg_16-Behavioral
	Info (12023): Found entity 1: reg_16
	Info (12022): Found design unit 1: reg_16-Behavioral
	Info (12023): Found entity 1: reg_16
Info (12021): Found 2 design units, including 1 entities, in source file hexdriver.vhd
	Info (12022): Found design unit 1: HexDriver-Behavioral
	Info (12023): Found entity 1: HexDriver
	Info (12022): Found design unit 1: HexDriver-Behavioral
	Info (12023): Found entity 1: HexDriver
Info (12021): Found 2 design units, including 1 entities, in source file four_to_one.vhd
	Info (12022): Found design unit 1: four_to_one-Behavioral
	Info (12023): Found entity 1: four_to_one
	Info (12022): Found design unit 1: four_to_one-Behavioral
	Info (12023): Found entity 1: four_to_one
Info (12021): Found 2 design units, including 1 entities, in source file tri_state.vhd
	Info (12022): Found design unit 1: tri_state-Behavioral
	Info (12023): Found entity 1: tri_state
	Info (12022): Found design unit 1: tri_state-Behavioral
	Info (12023): Found entity 1: tri_state
Info (12021): Found 2 design units, including 1 entities, in source file bus_mux.vhd
	Info (12022): Found design unit 1: bus_mux-Behavioral
	Info (12023): Found entity 1: bus_mux
	Info (12022): Found design unit 1: bus_mux-Behavioral
	Info (12023): Found entity 1: bus_mux
Info (12127): Elaborating entity "slc3" for the top level hierarchy

Any ideas on how to fix this? I compiled and ran in ModelSim just fine, but unfortunately ModelSim can't blast the program to my board.

Altera_Forum · ‎03-21-2014

I hope you've sorted this by now...?

There's not much in the log to identify any problem. Is this repeatable? You don't say what platform you're running on. However, if you kill off this process (and possibly restart your machine) does it do this every time? Is it repeatable?

Regards,

Alex