Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Recompiling FPGA with Quartus 6.1 tool

[Eric Blossom]

On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 06:36:42PM -0800, Jim Murashige wrote:
> I was trying to recompile the usrp_std.v just to try out the tools,
> since we plan to 
> 
> make future changes to the FPGA.  However only Quartus II v6.1 is
> available on 
> 
> the Altera website.  It compiles and synthesizes fine, but it ends up
> with 
> 
> 15501 blocks of type logic cell which just won't fit into the 12060
> block EP1C12Q240C8N.
> 
> Is there a compile setting that needs to be set or something edited in
> the source
> 
> to get the logic cell size down so it will fit into the USRP FPGA?
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Jim Murashige, Rosum

Hi Jim,

This is news to me.  Did you use our project file?  If so, this sounds
like a regression in Quartus.  Last time I built everything I used
Quartus 6.0sp1.  I suggest sending email to somebody at Altera and
asking for a link to the earlier version.

Eric