Description
You may encounter the following Fitter errors if you are compiling a design with the 4 channels of a XAUI PHY placed across two Arria® V device transceiver banks in Quartus® II 13.0.
Error (178018): Channels in the bonded channel groups containing the following must be placed in contiguous locations. If CMU PLLs are used, gaps must be left for the transmit PLL channel.
Resolution
This problem will be fixed in a future version of the Quartus II software.