Design Entry and Synthesis
Quartus® II design software delivers the highest productivity and performance for FPGAs, CPLDs, and HardCopy® ASICs, and offers numerous design features to accelerate the design process:
- Design Entry
- Scripting Support
- Incremental Compilation: Initial Setup
- SOPC Builder
- MegaWizard® Plug-In Manager
- I/O Pin Assignment Analysis
- Quartus II Integrated Synthesis
- Third Party Design Entry and Synthesis
- Basic Compilation Flow
Design Entry
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- Quartus II software supports various methods of design entry including VHDL, Verilog, schematic design, block editor, and third-party netlist
- Tutorials are available to guide and help you get started in your design
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Scripting Support
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- Allows you to run the Quartus II software synthesis, place-and-route, timing analysis, and programming modules independently from the command line
- Easy-to-use tool command language (Tcl) interface
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Incremental Compilation: Initial Setup
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- Most productive incremental design methodology for high-density FPGAs
- Reduces design compilation times up to 70 percent
- Supports both top-down and bottom-up team-based design and delivers faster compilation times for design iterations
- Requires setup at beginning of design process
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SOPC Builder
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- Allows you to rapidly and easily build and evaluate embedded systems
- Integrates off-the-shelf intellectual property from Altera or Altera Megafunction Partner Program (AMPPSM) partners
- Enables you to create your own reusable custom components
- Generates HDL to build an interconnect fabric optimized for the requirements of each system
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MegaWizard Plug-In Manager
I/O Pin Assignment Analysis
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- Allows up-front I/O pin assignment and validation
- Enables PCB layout to begin earlier in the design process
- Allows you to change and validate pin assignments at any time
- Makes it easy to allocate and manage pin assignments
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Quartus II Integrated Synthesis
Quartus II software includes a comprehensive integrated synthesis solution and advanced integration with leading third-party synthesis software vendors. Quartus II integrated synthesis includes advanced synthesis options and compiler directives (attributes) to guide the synthesis process to achieve optimal results. The incremental synthesis feature in Quartus II software gives you more control over design changes and improves synthesis compilation times for incremental changes.
Third Party Design Entry and Synthesis
With Quartus II software, you can use a variety of third-party design entry and synthesis tools. Altera works closely with third-party companies that provide HDL synthesis, system-level co-design, and physical synthesis to ensure that you can take advantage of the latest synthesis tools and methodologies. A complete listing of third-party EDA vendors that support Altera® devices is available on the EDA Partners web page.
Basic Compilation Flow
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- Process the design files with synthesis, fitter, assembler, and timing analysis modules
- Tutorials are available to guide and help you getting started in your design
- Changeable fitter effort and setting
- Allows assignment setting for resources
- Generate programming file for downloading to devices
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