Due to a problem with the Intel® Quartus® Prime software version 17.1, the dynamic example designs generated from Platform Designer or IP Catalog are missing some pin location assignments. As a result these designs can fail enumeration, possibly resulting in the LTSSM holding at the Detect state or cycling between the Detect and Polling states.
Device Family: Intel® Stratix® 10
Type: Answers
Area: Intellectual Property
Last Modified: February 08, 2018
Version Found: v17.1
Version Fixed: v18.0
Why does my Intel® Stratix® 10 PCIe* example design fail to enumerate?
Description
Workaround/Fix
To work around this issue, assign the test_in signals to virtual pins and assign the npor input to a pin which defaults to a high (true) state.
- The test_in assignment will hold all those signals deasserted, which will prevent the PCIe* IP from going into a test mode.
- Connecting npor to a high input will prevent npor from being asserted and holding the PCIe* IP in reset. On the Intel® Stratix® 10 GX development kit, you could connect npor to pin B20 which is a user pushbutton with a pullup.
You can make these assignments in the Assignment Editor, or directly edit the .qsf file to add these lines:
set_instance_assignment -name VIRTUAL_PIN ON -to hip_ctrl_test_in -entity pcie_example_design
set_location_assignment PIN_B20 -to pcie_rstn_npor
This problem is scheduled to be fixed in a future Intel® Quartus® Prime software release.