Article ID: 000074366 Content Type: Error Messages Last Reviewed: 01/24/2019

Error (329006): Some pins have illegal board trace models

Environment

  • Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition
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    Description

    Due to the global setting is not supported in Intel® Quartus Prime® Pro Edition version 18.1.1 onward, when you write the following setting
    in QSF i.e. set_global_assignment -name <instance name> "<section identifier>" -<value>

    You will receive the error as titled with sub message as below:

    Error (20403): Global setting for <instance name> is not supported. Please use this setting with pin assignments.

     

    Example settings which causes the error:

    set_global_assignment -name OUTPUT_IO_TIMING_NEAR_END_VMEAS "HALF VCCIO" -rise

    set_global_assignment -name OUTPUT_IO_TIMING_NEAR_END_VMEAS "HALF VCCIO" -fall

    set_global_assignment -name OUTPUT_IO_TIMING_FAR_END_VMEAS "HALF SIGNAL SWING" -rise

    set_global_assignment -name OUTPUT_IO_TIMING_FAR_END_VMEAS "HALF SIGNAL SWING" -fall

     

    <instance name> could be from the list below:

    OUTPUT_IO_TIMING_NEAR_END_VMEAS

    OUTPUT_IO_TIMING_FAR_END_VMEAS

    BOARD_MODEL_NEAR_PULLUP_R

    BOARD_MODEL_NEAR_PULLDOWN_R

    BOARD_MODEL_NEAR_C

    BOARD_MODEL_NEAR_SERIES_R

    BOARD_MODEL_NEAR_TLINE_C_PER_LENGTH

    BOARD_MODEL_NEAR_TLINE_L_PER_LENGTH

    BOARD_MODEL_NEAR_TLINE_LENGTH

    BOARD_MODEL_TLINE_C_PER_LENGTH

    BOARD_MODEL_TLINE_L_PER_LENGTH

    BOARD_MODEL_TLINE_LENGTH

    BOARD_MODEL_FAR_SERIES_R

    BOARD_MODEL_FAR_C

    BOARD_MODEL_FAR_PULLUP_R

    BOARD_MODEL_FAR_PULLDOWN_R

    BOARD_MODEL_TERMINATION_V

    BOARD_MODEL_NEAR_SERIES_C

    BOARD_MODEL_NEAR_DIFFERENTIAL_R

    BOARD_MODEL_FAR_DIFFERENTIAL_R

    Resolution

    To avoid this problem, you must use set_instance_assignment by adding the specific instance assignment pin name instead of set_global_assignment.

    For example:

    set_instance_assignment -name OUTPUT_IO_TIMING_NEAR_END_VMEAS "HALF VCCIO" -to <pin name>

    Related Products

    This article applies to 3 products

    Intel® Cyclone® 10 GX FPGA
    Intel® Stratix® 10 FPGAs and SoC FPGAs
    Intel® Arria® 10 FPGAs and SoC FPGAs