Problems porting from 11.1 SOPC to 12.1 QSys.

Altera_Forum · ‎12-17-2012

I have recently opened my 11.1 design in 12.1, starting from an Archive (.qar file)

It contains an SOPC builder system, and I want to port it to QSys for various reasons.

I have encountered a couple of minor issues in doing this, but now have hit this problem.

Here is my current flow:

Open Quartus, using the .qar as the project. ok.
Open QSys from the tools menu. Select the MortonScaler.sopc file.
This errors-out indicating that the DDR global resets are not hooked up. Hook them up to external ports to the QSys system. ok
Hit Generate
This errors out indicating that some custom source files (MeasureDVI.vhd, ru_wrap.v, sh4mbx_core.v, mbxcore.v) are not present. Somehow the archive did not include them. Add these files from the original. ok.
Hit Generate again
Now this errors out with the error:

Info: altpll_0: Error while generating MortonScaler_altpll_0.v : 1 : Error: DLL ("altpll_avalon") not found

child process exited abnormally

Info: altpll_0: Error: DLL ("altpll_avalon") not found

child process exited abnormally

while executing

"exec clearbox altpll_avalon device_family=ARRIAII CBX_FILE=MortonScaler_altpll_0.v -f cbxcmdln_1355780123425864"

("eval" body line 1)

invoked from within

"eval exec $cbx_cmd "

Error: Can't continue processing -- expected file /tmp/alt5691_5190484615655509375.dir/0021_sopcgen/MortonScaler_altpll_0.v is missing

Warning: Quartus II 64-Bit Generate HDL Interface was unsuccessful. 1 error, 0 warnings

Error: Peak virtual memory: 851 megabytes

Error: Processing ended: Mon Dec 17 13:35:28 2012

Error: Elapsed time: 00:00:02

Error: Total CPU time (on all processors): 00:00:01

Error: altpll_0: File /tmp/alt5691_5190484615655509375.dir/0021_sopcgen/MortonScaler_altpll_0.v written by generation callback did not contain a module called MortonScaler_altpll_0

Error: altpll_0: /tmp/alt5691_5190484615655509375.dir/0021_sopcgen/MortonScaler_altpll_0.v (No such file or directory)

Info: altpll_0: "MortonScaler" instantiated altpll "altpll_0"

Error: Generation stopped, 1325 or more modules remaining

Info: MortonScaler: Done MortonScaler" with 91 modules, 224 files, 18034244 bytes

Error: ip-generate failed with exit code 1: 8 Errors, 12 Warnings

Info: Finished: Create HDL design files for synthesis

I have not managed to get past this issue in 12.1 QSys.

I have attached the qar file, and the missing HDL files that appear to be necessary to open the QSys project.

Any help is gratefully received.

Altera_Forum · ‎12-18-2012

Hi, I suggest you to remove your current pll from you Qsys system

and then add the version 12.1 of the pll.