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1. Introduction to Intel® Quartus® Prime Standard Edition
2. Managing Intel® Quartus® Prime Projects
3. Design Planning
4. Introduction to Intel® FPGA IP Cores
5. Migrating to Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition
A. Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition User Guide: Getting Started Documentation Archive
B. Intel® Quartus® Prime Standard Edition User Guides
2.1. Viewing Basic Project Information
2.2. Intel® Quartus® Prime Project Contents
2.3. Managing Project Settings
2.4. Managing Logic Design Files
2.5. Managing Timing Constraints
2.6. Integrating Other EDA Tools
2.7. Exporting Compilation Results
2.8. Migrating Projects Across Operating Systems
2.9. Archiving Projects
2.10. Command-Line Interface
2.11. Managing Projects Revision History
3.1. Design Planning
3.2. Create a Design Specification and Test Plan
3.3. Plan for the Target Device
3.4. Plan for Intellectual Property Cores
3.5. Plan for Standard Interfaces
3.6. Plan for Device Programming
3.7. Plan for Device Power Consumption
3.8. Plan for Interface I/O Pins
3.9. Plan for other EDA Tools
3.10. Plan for On-Chip Debugging Tools
3.11. Plan HDL Coding Styles
3.12. Plan for Hierarchical and Team-Based Designs
3.13. Design Planning Revision History
4.1. IP Catalog and Parameter Editor
4.2. Installing and Licensing Intel® FPGA IP Cores
4.3. IP General Settings
4.4. Adding Your Own IP to IP Catalog
4.5. Best Practices for Intel® FPGA IP
4.6. Generating IP Cores ( Intel® Quartus® Prime Standard Edition)
4.7. Modifying an IP Variation
4.8. Upgrading IP Cores
4.9. Simulating Intel® FPGA IP Cores
4.10. Synthesizing IP Cores in Other EDA Tools
4.11. Instantiating IP Cores in HDL
4.12. Introduction to Intel FPGA IP Cores Revision History
5.2.1. Modify Entity Name Assignments
5.2.2. Resolve Timing Constraint Entity Names
5.2.3. Verify Generated Node Name Assignments
5.2.4. Replace Logic Lock (Standard) Regions
5.2.5. Modify Signal Tap Logic Analyzer Files
5.2.6. Remove References to .qip Files
5.2.7. Remove Unsupported Feature Assignments
5.4.1. Verify Verilog Compilation Unit
5.4.2. Update Entity Auto-Discovery
5.4.3. Ensure Distinct VHDL Namespace for Each Library
5.4.4. Remove Unsupported Parameter Passing
5.4.5. Remove Unsized Constant from WYSIWYG Instantiation
5.4.6. Remove Non-Standard Pragmas
5.4.7. Declare Objects Before Initial Values
5.4.8. Confine SystemVerilog Features to SystemVerilog Files
5.4.9. Avoid Assignment Mixing in Always Blocks
5.4.10. Avoid Unconnected, Non-Existent Ports
5.4.11. Avoid Illegal Parameter Ranges
5.4.12. Update Verilog HDL and VHDL Type Mapping
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3.11.1. Design Recommendations
Use synchronous design practices to consistently meet your design goals. Problems with asynchronous design techniques include reliance on propagation delays in a device, incomplete timing analysis, and possible glitches.
In a synchronous design, a clock signal triggers all events. When you meet all register timing requirements, a synchronous design behaves in a predictable and reliable manner for all process, voltage, and temperature (PVT) conditions. You can easily target synchronous designs to different device families or speed grades.
Clock signals have a large effect on the timing accuracy, performance, and reliability of your design. Problems with clock signals can cause functional and timing problems in your design. Use dedicated clock pins and clock routing for best results, and if you have PLLs in your target device, use the PLLs for clock inversion, multiplication, and division. For clock multiplexing and gating, use the dedicated clock control block or PLL clock switchover feature instead of combinational logic, if these features are available in your device. If you must use internally-generated clock signals, register the output of any combinational logic used as a clock signal to reduce glitches.
The Design Assistant in the Intel® Quartus® Prime software is a design-rule checking tool that enables you to verify design issues. The Design Assistant checks your design for adherence to Intel-recommended design guidelines. You can also use third-party lint tools to check your coding style. The Design Assistant does not support Max 10 and Intel® Arria® 10 devices.
Consider the architecture of the device you choose so that you can use specific features in your design. For example, the control signals should use the dedicated control signals in the device architecture. Sometimes, you might need to limit the number of different control signals used in your design to achieve the best results.