Quartus® Prime Standard Edition User Guide: Design Compilation

ID 683283
Date 10/22/2021
Public
Document Table of Contents

2.3.1. Using Standard Flow

In the standard incremental compilation flow, the top-level design is divided into partitions, which can be compiled and optimized together in one Quartus® Prime project. If another team member or IP provider is developing source code for the top-level design, they can functionally verify their partition independently, and then simply provide the partition’s source code to the project lead for integration into the top-level design. If the project lead wants to compile the top-level design when source code is not yet complete for a partition, they can create an empty placeholder for the partition until the code is ready to be added to the top-level design.

Compiling all design partitions in a single Quartus® Prime project ensures that all design logic is compiled with a consistent set of assignments, and allows the software to perform global placement and routing optimizations. Compiling all design logic together is beneficial for FPGA design flows because all parts of the design must use the same shared set of device resources. Therefore, it is often easier to ensure good quality of results when partitions are developed within a single top-level Quartus® Prime project.