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Petter Gustad

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Apr 10, 2003, 8:27:24 AM4/10/03
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The SOPC Builder is not officially supported under Linux yet. However,
I can run the Java files distributed with the Solaris release under
Linux (IBM jre 2.13). But I get a message saying that SOPC Builder
requires an open Quartus II project.

Is there a way to launch the SOPC Builder from within Quartus II or
trick it to communicate with the Quartus II process?

Petter
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Ben Twijnstra

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Apr 11, 2003, 2:54:20 PM4/11/03
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Hi Petter,

> The SOPC Builder is not officially supported under Linux yet. However,
> I can run the Java files distributed with the Solaris release under
> Linux (IBM jre 2.13). But I get a message saying that SOPC Builder
> requires an open Quartus II project.
>
> Is there a way to launch the SOPC Builder from within Quartus II or
> trick it to communicate with the Quartus II process?

Not at this point. Even though it _should_ work (after all, it's Java), SOPC
Builder needs to connect to a Quartus server socket to query the current
project. As Quartus under Linux has no such socket open, at the moment I
can't think of a way to do this.

I did ask around and SOPC Builder should be included in the 3.0 Linux
package, with of course the NIOS being available for Linux as well.

Best regards,


Ben


Petter Gustad

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Apr 14, 2003, 8:13:34 AM4/14/03
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"Ben Twijnstra" <be...@SPAM.ME.NOT.chello.nl> writes:

> Hi Petter,
>
> > The SOPC Builder is not officially supported under Linux yet. However,
> > I can run the Java files distributed with the Solaris release under
> > Linux (IBM jre 2.13). But I get a message saying that SOPC Builder
> > requires an open Quartus II project.
> >
> > Is there a way to launch the SOPC Builder from within Quartus II or
> > trick it to communicate with the Quartus II process?
>
> Not at this point. Even though it _should_ work (after all, it's Java), SOPC
> Builder needs to connect to a Quartus server socket to query the current
> project. As Quartus under Linux has no such socket open, at the moment I
> can't think of a way to do this.

It appears that this is possible using the -projectname and
-projectpath options. However, the next problems it to specify at path
to the local perl interpreter since the default is to use the SPARC
version included with SOPC.

Maybe it's better to wait for full Linux support.

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