If you try to place a DDR3 UniPHY-based controller in quadrant 1 or 2, you will get the following errors.
Error (175020): Illegal constraint of PLL output counter to the region (0, 31) to (0, 81): no valid locations in region
Error (177013): Cannot route from the PLL output counter output to destination dual-regional clock driver because the destination is in the wrong region
UniPHY-based controllers use dual-regional clocks for the pll_afi_clk, pll_addr_cmd_clk, and pll_config_clk signals. This is to allow an interface to span an entire side of a device.
Certain quadrants of Cyclone® V SoC and Arria® V SoC devices do not have dual-regional clocks.
Placing a DDR3 UniPHY-based controller in quadrant 1 or 2 is possible. You must ensure that in the QSF file, the DDR3 controller uses regional clock assignments, instead of dual-regional clock assignments.