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

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Date 9/24/2018
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2.5.1.2. Using Partitions with Third-Party Synthesis Tools

Incremental compilation works well with third-party synthesis tools in addition to Intel® Quartus® Prime Integrated Synthesis. If you use a third-party synthesis tool, set up your tool to create a separate Verilog Quartus Mapping File (.vqm) or EDIF Input File (.edf) netlist for each hierarchical partition. In the Intel® Quartus® Prime software, designate the top-level entity from each netlist as a design partition. The .vqm or .edf netlist file is treated as the source file for the partition in the Intel® Quartus® Prime software.