Quartus® Prime Pro Edition User Guide: Block-Based Design
                    
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                        683247
                    
                
                
                    Date
                    8/30/2025
                
                
                    Public
                
            
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                1.1. Block-Based Design Terminology
                            
                        
                            
                                1.2. Block-Based Design Overview
                            
                            
                        
                            
                                1.3. Design Methodologies Overview
                            
                            
                        
                            
                                1.4. Design Partitioning
                            
                            
                        
                            
                                1.5. Design Block Reuse Flows
                            
                            
                        
                            
                                1.6. Incremental Block-Based Compilation Flow
                            
                            
                        
                            
                                1.7. Setting-Up Team-Based Designs
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                                1.8. Bottom-Up Design Considerations
                            
                        
                            
                            
                                1.9. Debugging Block-Based Designs with the Signal Tap Logic Analyzer
                            
                        
                            
                            
                                1.10. Block-Based Design Flows Revision History
                            
                        
                    
                
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                3.1. Preserving the Device Resources
                            
                        
                            
                            
                                3.2. Fixing the Safety Partitions to Logic Lock Regions
                            
                        
                            
                            
                                3.3. Exporting and Importing Safety Logic Partitions
                            
                        
                            
                                3.4. I/O Banks in Safety Partitions
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                                3.5. Safety Region Verification Tool
                            
                        
                            
                            
                                3.6. Implementing Partitions for the Safety Separation Design Flow Revision History
                            
                        
                    
                
                                    
                                    
                                        
                                        
                                            3.4.1. Preserving GPIO IP and the I/Os in I/O Banks in Safety Partitions
                                        
                                        
                                    
                                        
                                        
                                            3.4.2. Preserving IOPLL IP in I/O Banks in Safety Partitions
                                        
                                        
                                    
                                        
                                        
                                            3.4.3. Preserving I/Os (other than GPIO IP I/Os) in I/O Banks in Safety Partitions
                                        
                                        
                                    
                                        
                                        
                                            3.4.4. Verifying the Preserved I/Os in the Safety Partition
                                        
                                        
                                    
                                        
                                        
                                            3.4.5. HSIO Bank 3A in a Safety Partition
                                        
                                        
                                    
                                
                            3.3. Exporting and Importing Safety Logic Partitions
When exporting safety logic containing several partitions, because each partition is standalone, export each as a separate database .qdb file. 
  
  - Export after the Fitter (Finalize) stage in the design creation flow.
- Export .qdb file in GUI from the context menu of partition.
    Alternatively, export .qdb using command line, use the equivalent Tcl command in the Quartus® Prime Pro Edition software.Figure 29. Export .qdb file for the Safety Logic Partition in Design Creation Flow Figure 30. Export .qdb file for the Safety Partition in Design Creation Flow Figure 30. Export .qdb file for the Safety Partition in Design Creation Flow  
- Subsequently in the design modification flow, import the safety logic partition .qdb files.
- To import .qdb file, specify the Partition Database File field in the GUI.
    Figure 31. Import .qdb file for the Safety Partition in Design Modification Flow