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qsys can't find hps pin info

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I have a new Terasic DE1-Soc Rev D. which has a 5CSEMA5F31C6N 

I am unable to get qsys to find the pin info for the hps component. Thus, it refuses to generate hdl. 

 

The error in the tool is 

Error: soc_system.hps_0: The pin information for the Hard Processor System could not be determined. Please check whether your edition of Quartus II supports the selected device. 

 

I'm new to the quartus tool chain and it feels like I've overlooked some basic setup step. Naively, I would have expected some sort of board definition package similar to the device .qdz that also needs to be additionally installed after the device.qdz and would provide canonical pin names based on actual board trace peripheral connections, detailed sdram timing & arch, etc and other board specific info. But, I can't find any such thing or any mention of something like that. 

 

I am able to build and install the basic blinky-light verilog samples that came with the board. And, I've verified that I can modify them and my changes show up. I can also boot Linux. So, the fundamental tool chain and device are working. 

 

SW versions: 

windows 8 

Quartus II web edition 64-bit (14.0.0.200) same problem with or without 14.0.1.205 patch 

ModelSim 14.0.0.200 

CycloneV- 14.0.0.200.qdz 

 

The Web vs. subcription edition detailed comparison here: http://www.altera.com/literature/po/ss_quartussevswe.pdf 

Says that the web edition supports qsys on all cyclone V socs. 

 

I have tried a couple of different things with qsys. 

 

I am Following workshop lab here: 

http://www.rocketboards.org/foswiki/documentation/arrowsockitevaluationboard#workshop_labs 

except that I'm generating the qsys project from scratch because of minor differences between the board peripherals and slightly different c5 model. 

 

I've also tried directly loading Terasic's similar but much less detailed walkthrough on their system CD in demonstrations\SOC_FPGA\my_first_hps-fpga_base \<sample project> and UserManual\My_First_HPS-Fpga.pdf since it contains a pre-existing project for the right board and periperal. 

 

I have the same qsys error with either the project I create from scratch or when I open the full Terasic sample that came with the board CD download. 

 

Web search with multiple search engines turns up no mention of this specific error message 

 

Does anyone have any idea what I'm missing? What file(s) and directory is supposed to contain the pin information? 

 

 

thanks
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