Intel® Quartus® Prime Standard Edition User Guide: Design Compilation

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Date 9/24/2018
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2.5.4.1. Allocate Logic Resources

In an incremental compilation design flow in which designers, such as third-party IP providers, optimize partitions and then export them to a top-level design, the Intel® Quartus® Prime software places and routes each partition separately. In some cases, partitions can use conflicting resources when combined at the top level. Allocation of logic resources requires that you decide on a set of logic resources (including I/O, LAB logic blocks, RAM and DSP blocks) that the IP block will ”own”. This process can be interactive; the project lead and the IP designer might work together to determine what resources are required for the IP block and are available in the top-level design.

You can constrain logic utilization for the IP core using design floorplan location assignments. The design should specify I/O pin locations with pin assignments.

You can also specify limits for Intel® Quartus® Prime synthesis to allocate and balance resources. This procedure can also help if device resources are overused in the individual partitions during synthesis.

In the standard synthesis flow, the Intel® Quartus® Prime software can perform automated resource balancing for DSP blocks or RAM blocks and convert some of the logic into regular logic cells to prevent overuse.

You can use the Intel® Quartus® Prime synthesis options to control inference of IP cores that use the DSP, or RAM blocks. You can also use the IP Catalog and Parameter Editor to customize your RAM or DSP IP cores to use regular logic instead of the dedicated hardware blocks.