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

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

1. Creating a System with Platform Designer

Updated for:
Intel® Quartus® Prime Design Suite 18.1
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The Intel® Quartus® Prime software includes the Platform Designer system integration tool. Platform Designer simplifies the task of defining and integrating custom IP components (IP cores) into your FPGA design.

Platform Designer automatically creates interconnect logic from high-level connectivity that you specify. The interconnect automation eliminates the time-consuming task of specifying system-level HDL connections.

Platform Designer allows you to specify interface requirements and integrate IP components within a graphical representation of the system. The Intel® Quartus® Prime software installation includes the Intel FPGA IP library available from the IP Catalog in Platform Designer.

You can integrate optimized and verified Intel FPGA IP cores into a design to shorten design cycles and maximize performance. Platform Designer also supports integration of IP cores from third-parties, or custom components that you define.

Platform Designer provides support for the following:

  • Create and reuse components—define and reuse custom parameterizable components in a Hardware Component Definition File (_hw.tcl) that describes and packages IP components.
  • Command-line support—optionally use command-line utilities and scripts to perform functions available in the Platform Designer GUI.
  • Up to 64-bit addressing.
  • Optimization of interconnect and pipelining within the system and auto-adaptation of data widths and burst characteristics.
  • Inter-operation between standard protocols.