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Quartus error while compiling a reference design

Altera_Forum
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When compiling the reference design "Interfacing a 267-MHz DDR2 SDRAM with an Arria II GX FPGA" with Quartus 10.1sp1 on CentOS 4.6, I get the following error message. It says the error is in a tcl file coming with the Quartus suite. What can I do for it? Thanks! 

 

Error: Tcl error: ERROR: Compilation database is newer than the last call to "create_timing_netlist". Use the "delete_timing_netlist" Tcl command before using "load_report". 

 

while executing 

"load_report" 

invoked from within 

"if [is_project_open] { 

 

if {$options(qsf2sdc)} { 

post_message -type info "Migrating assignments from quartus_tan" 

 

set value [get_ini_var -nam..." 

(procedure "main" line 121) 

invoked from within 

"main" 

(file "/app2/altera/10.1/quartus/common/tcl/internal/qsta_default_script.tcl" line 1104) 

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Altera_Forum
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Is your reference design from V10.1sp1? or from an older release?. Can you post the messages that TimeQuest (quartus_sta) displayed before the error?

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Altera_Forum
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Thank you for your reply. 

The reference design is downloaded from the Altera website. 

It is for 9.1 but I've already re-generated the IPs using 10.1sp1.
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Altera_Forum
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Hi, 

 

My guess is that the reference design has QSF timing assignments (for the Classic Timing Analyzer), and the V10.1sp1 TimeQuest is having trouble trying to convert them to an SDC file. 

I would recommend one of the following three options: 

1.- Remove the Timing assignments from the QSF and manually create an SDC file for TimeQuest 

2.- Use V9.1 to compile and run quartus_sta --qsf2sdc to generate the SDC file. Then remove the timing assignments from the QSF, and try again with V10.1sp1 (and using the generated SDC file). 

3.- Just try to use the V10.1sp1 reference design. Any reason why you are using the V9.1 one?
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