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1.15. Integrating a Platform Designer System with the Intel® Quartus® Prime Software
You can choose to include the .qsys file automatically in your Intel® Quartus® Prime project when you generate your Platform Designer system by turning on the Automatically add Intel® Quartus® Prime IP files to all projects option in the Intel® Quartus® Prime software (Tools > Options > IP Settings). If this option is turned off, the Intel® Quartus® Prime software asks you if you want to include the .qsys file in your Intel® Quartus® Prime project after you exit Platform Designer.
If you want file generation to occur as part of the Intel® Quartus® Prime software's compilation, you should include the .qsys file in your Intel® Quartus® Prime project. If you want to manually control file generation outside of the Intel® Quartus® Prime software, you should include the .qip file in your Intel® Quartus® Prime project.
Does Intel® Quartus® Prime Overwrite Platform Designer-Generated Files During Compilation?
Platform Designer supports standard and legacy device generation. Standard device generation refers to generating files for the Intel® Arria® 10 device, and later device families. Legacy device generation refers to generating files for device families prior to the release of the Intel® Arria® 10 device, including MAX 10 devices.
When you integrate your Platform Designer system with the Intel® Quartus® Prime software, if a .qsys file is included as a source file, Platform Designer generates standard device files under <system>/ next to the location of the .qsys file. For legacy devices, if a .qsys file is included as a source file, Platform Designer generates HDL files in the Intel® Quartus® Prime project directory under /db/ip.
For standard devices, Platform Designer-generated files are only overwritten during Intel® Quartus® Prime compilation if the .qip file is removed or missing. For legacy devices, each time you compile your Intel® Quartus® Prime project with a .qsys file, the Platform Designer-generated files are overwritten. Therefore, you should not edit Platform Designer-generated HDL in the /db/ip directory; any edits made to these files are lost and never used as input to the Quartus HDL synthesis engine.