Article ID: 000076243 Content Type: Troubleshooting Last Reviewed: 01/21/2020

When using the Intel® Arria® 10/Cyclone® 10 Hard IP for PCI* Express Avalon-ST, why is the host system unable to detect the PCIe link or fail to boot up from BIOS?

Environment

  • Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition
  • PCI Express
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    Critical Issue

    Description

    Due to a problem with the Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition software version 19.3, you may encounter the above problem, this is due to an incorrect implementation of the pld_clk_inuse signal of the Intel® Arria® 10/Cyclone® 10 Hard IP for PCI* Express.

    Resolution

    A patch is available to fix this problem. Download and install patch 0.26 for Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition software version 19.3.

     

    Download patch 0.26 for Windows* (quartus-19.3-0.26-windows.exe)

    Download patch 0.26 for Linux* (quartus-19.3-0.26-linux.run)

    Download the Readme for patch 0.26 (quartus-19.3-0.26-readme.txt)

     

    This problem is fixed beginning with the Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition software version 19.4.

    Related Products

    This article applies to 2 products

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