Intel® Quartus® Prime Standard Edition User Guide: Platform Designer

ID 683364
Date 12/15/2018
Public
Document Table of Contents

1.4.7. Customizing the Platform Designer Layout

You can arrange your workspace by dragging and dropping, and then grouping tabs in an order appropriate to your design development, or close or dock tabs that you are not using.

Dock tabs in the main frame as a group, or individually by clicking the tab control in the upper-right corner of the main frame. Tool tips on the upper-right corner of the tab describe possible workspace arrangements, for example, restoring or disconnecting a tab to or from your workspace.

When you save your system, Platform Designer also saves the current workspace configuration. When you re-open a saved system, Platform Designer restores the last saved workspace.

The Reset to System Layout command on the View menu restores the workspace to its default configuration for Platform Designer system design. The Reset to IP Layout command restores the workspace to its default configuration for defining and generating single IP cores.

Follow these steps to customize and save the Platform Designer layout:
  1. Click items on the View menu to display and then optionally dock the tabs. Rearrange the tabs to suit your preferences.
  2. To save the current Platform Designer window configuration as a custom layout, click View > Custom Layouts > Save. Platform Designer saves your custom layout in your project directory, and adds the layout to the custom layouts list, and the layouts.ini file. The layouts.ini file determines the order of layouts in the list.
  3. Use any of the following methods to revert to another layout:
    • To revert the layout to the default system design layout, click View > Reset to System Layout. This layout displays the System View , Address Map, Interconnect Requirements, and Messages tabs in the main pane, and the IP Catalog and Hierarchy tabs along the left pane.
    • To revert the layout to the default system design layout, click View > Reset to IP Layout. This layout displays the Parameters and Messages tabs in the main pane, and the Details, Block Symbol, and Presets tabs along the right pane.
    • To reset your Platform Designer window configuration to a previously saved layout, click View > Custom Layouts, and then select the custom layout.
    • Press Ctrl+3 to quickly change the Platform Designer layout.
  4. To manage your saved custom layouts, click View > Custom Layouts. The Manage Custom Layouts dialog box opens and allows you to apply a variety of functions that facilitate custom layout management. For example, you can import or export a layout from or to a different directory.
    Figure 11. Manage Custom Layouts