design unit Definition

A design entity that can be used together with gate and flipflop primitives and/or megafunctions in Intel® Quartus® Prime design files.

Entities include the following:

  • user AHDL macrofunctions
  • Very High Speed Integrated Circuit (VHSIC) Hardware Description Language (VHDL) entity-architecture design units
  • Verilog HDL modules
  • EDIF cells inside an EDIF design
  • user schematic (or block diagram) macrofunctions
  • library of parameterized modules (LPM) functions
  • megafunctions