Quartus® Prime Standard Edition User Guide: Design Compilation

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Date 10/22/2021
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1.8.5. Performing Design Iterations With Lower-Level Partitions

Scenario background: A project consists of several lower-level subdesigns that have been exported from separate Quartus® Prime projects and imported into the top-level design. In this example, integration at the top level has failed because the timing requirements are not met. The timing requirements might have been met in each individual lower-level project, but critical inter-partition paths in the top-level design are causing timing requirements to fail.

After trying various optimizations in the top-level design, the project lead determines that the design cannot meet the timing requirements given the current partition placements that were imported. The project lead decides to pass additional information to the lower-level partitions to improve the placement.

Use this flow if you re-optimize partitions exported from separate Quartus® Prime projects by incorporating additional constraints from the integrated top-level design.