Altera^® IP Definition

A specialized, complex or high-level building block that can be used together with other logic elements and primitives in Quartus^® Prime design files.

Altera provides a library of IP cores with the Quartus^® Prime installation. VHDL Component Declarations for LPM functions and other IP cores are provided in the lpm_components package in the lpm library, and the megacore package in the altera library, respectively. Both of these libraries are located in subdirectories of the \quartus\libraries\vhdl directory.