Hi,
In my group we are developing firmware for Altera Stratix II GX fpga. The device is attached to an EPC8 configuration eprom.
Due to the usage of some advanced syntax of SystemVerilog (i.e.: array of interfaces) we use Quartus 13.0sp1. This is the last version of Quartus supporting the Stratix II GX which allows the usage of such syntax.
Unfortunately, we discovered too late that the device support for EPC8 has been discontinued in Quartus 13.0. Just now I realised that I am not able to generate a .pof file while a lot of development and tests were done using .sof only.
I have tried some workarounds already:
1 - syntethise .sof with Quartus 13.0 and generate .pof with quartus 10.1 -> no luck: the tool says that the .sof is corrupted.
2 - export the Quartus version-compatible database -> no luck: it looks like the export is possible only from old to newer versions of Quartus.
Does anybody have a suggestion on how to solve this issue without having to downgrade the full project to a previous version (this would mean reviewing a lot of working code).
Thnaks for your help,
Michele
