You may see this error message when you compile the golden example design from the Intel® Stratix® TX Signal Integrity Development Kit package under the Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition Software version 19.1 and later.
This is because the golden example design is from the Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition Software version 18.1 with the Intel® Stratix® 10 E-tile transceiver reference clock I/O standard constrained as "LVDS." And the software I/O standard checking rule is changed in the Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition Software version 19.1 and later.
To avoid this error, the I/O standard of the Intel® Stratix® 10 E-tile transceiver reference clock should be constrained as "Differential LVPECL" in Assignment Editor or Quartus® Settings File (.qsf) like the following.
set_instance_assignment -name IO_STANDARD "DIFFERENTIAL LVPECL" -to xxx