Intel® Cyclone® 10 GX Device Design Guidelines

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Date 11/06/2017
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Creating a Design Floorplan

To take full advantage of incremental compilation, you can create a design floorplan to avoid conflicts between design partitions, and to ensure that each partition is well placed relative to other partitions. When you create different location assignments for each partition, no location conflicts occur. In addition, a design floorplan helps avoid situations in which the Fitter is directed to place or replace a portion of the design in an area of the device where most resources have already been claimed. Floorplan assignments are recommended for timing-critical partitions in top-down flows.

Table 56.  Creating a Design Floorplan Checklist
Number Done? Checklist Item
1   Create a design floorplan for incremental compilation partitions, if required for your design flow.

You can use the Quartus Prime Chip Planner to create a design floorplan using Logic Lock (Standard) region assignments for each design partition. With a basic design framework for the top-level design, the floorplan editor enables you to view connections between regions, estimate physical timing delays on the chip, and move regions around the device floorplan. When you have compiled the full design, you can also view logic placement and locate areas of routing congestion to improve the floorplan assignments.