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1. Answers to Top FAQs
2. Introduction to Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition
3. Planning FPGA Design for RTL Flow
4. Selecting a Starting Point for Your Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition Project
5. Working With Intel® FPGA IP Cores
6. Managing Intel® Quartus® Prime Projects
A. Next Steps After Getting Started
B. Using the Design Space Explorer II
C. Document Revision History for Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition User Guide Getting Started
D. Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition User Guides
3.1.1. Creating a Design Specification and Test Plan
3.1.2. Planning for the Target Device or Board
Device and Board Selection Guidelines
3.1.3. Planning for Intellectual Property Cores
3.1.4. Planning for Standard Interfaces
3.1.5. Planning for Device Programming
3.1.6. Planning for Device Power Consumption
3.1.7. Planning for Interface I/O Pins
3.1.8. Planning for other EDA Tools
3.1.9. Planning for On-Chip Debugging Tools
3.1.10. Planning HDL Coding Styles
4.1. Creating a New FPGA Design Project
4.2. Migrating Projects from Other Intel® Quartus® Prime Editions to Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition
4.3. Migrating Your AMD* Vivado* Project to Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition
4.4. Migrating Projects Across Operating Systems
4.5. Migrating Project From One Device to Another
4.6. Related Trainings
4.2.2.1. Modifying Entity Name Assignments
4.2.2.2. Resolving Timing Constraint Entity Names
4.2.2.3. Verifying Generated Node Name Assignments
4.2.2.4. Replace Logic Lock (Standard) Regions
4.2.2.5. Modifying Signal Tap Logic Analyzer Files
4.2.2.6. Removing References to .qip Files
4.2.2.7. Removing Unsupported Feature Assignments
4.2.4.1. Verifying Verilog Compilation Unit
4.2.4.2. Updating Entity Auto-Discovery
4.2.4.3. Ensuring Distinct VHDL Namespace for Each Library
4.2.4.4. Removing Unsupported Parameter Passing
4.2.4.5. Removing Unsized Constant from WYSIWYG Instantiation
4.2.4.6. Removing Non-Standard Pragmas
4.2.4.7. Declaring Objects Before Initial Values
4.2.4.8. Confining SystemVerilog Features to SystemVerilog Files
4.2.4.9. Avoiding Assignment Mixing in Always Blocks
4.2.4.10. Avoiding Unconnected, Non-Existent Ports
4.2.4.11. Avoiding Invalid Parameter Ranges
4.2.4.12. Updating Verilog HDL and VHDL Type Mapping
4.2.4.13. Converting Symbolic BDF Files to Acceptable File Formats
5.1. IP Catalog and Parameter Editor
5.2. Installing and Licensing Intel® FPGA IP Cores
5.3. IP General Settings
5.4. Adding IP to IP Catalog
5.5. Best Practices for Intel® FPGA IP
5.6. Specifying the IP Core Parameters and Options ( Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition)
5.7. IP Core Generation Output ( Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition)
5.8. Scripting IP Core Generation
5.9. Modifying an IP Variation
5.10. Upgrading IP Cores
5.11. Simulating Intel® FPGA IP Cores
5.12. Generating Simulation Files for Platform Designer Systems and IP Variants
5.13. Synthesizing IP Cores in Other EDA Tools
5.14. Instantiating IP Cores in HDL
5.15. Support for the IEEE 1735 Encryption Standard
5.16. Related Trainings and Resources
6.1. Viewing Basic Project Information
6.2. Exploring Intel® Quartus® Prime Project Contents
6.3. Managing Project Settings
6.4. Viewing Parameter Settings From the Project Navigator
6.5. Managing Logic Design Files
6.6. Managing Timing Constraints
6.7. Integrating Other EDA Tools
6.8. Exporting Compilation Results
6.9. Archiving Projects
6.10. Command-Line Interface
6.11. Related Trainings
6.8.1. Exporting a Version-Compatible Compilation Database
6.8.2. Importing a Version-Compatible Compilation Database
6.8.3. Creating a Design Partition
6.8.4. Exporting a Design Partition
6.8.5. Reusing a Design Partition
6.8.6. Viewing Quartus Database File Information
6.8.7. Clearing Compilation Results
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3.1.2. Planning for the Target Device or Board
Intel offers a broad portfolio of FPGA and PLD devices. The Intel® device that you select determines factors of performance, density, and board layout. To avoid costly design changes, it is best to carefully consider and determine the target device family early in the design cycle.
Intel® FPGA device families differ in cost, size, density, performance, power consumption, packaging, I/O standards, and other factors. Select the device family that best suits your most critical design requirements.
Alternatively, you can create a system that targets a specific development board, rather than only targeting a specific FPGA device. When you target a specific development board, the Intel® Quartus® Prime software is aware of the target board (board-aware) which accelerates the process of appropriately configuring, connecting, and validating IP for the target board. Refer to Using the Board-Aware Flow for details.
Device and Board Selection Guidelines
- Refer to the Product Selector tool on the Intel® website to quickly find and compare the specifications and features of Intel® FPGA devices and development kits.
- Once you identify the target device family, refer to the device family documentation for detailed device characteristics. View a summary of each device's resources by selecting a device in the Device dialog box (Assignments > Device)
- Consider whether the device family meets any requirements you have for high-speed transceivers, global or regional clock networks, and the number of phase-locked loops (PLLs)
- Consider the density requirements of your design. Devices with more logic resources and higher I/O counts can implement larger and more complex designs, but at a higher cost. Smaller devices use lower static power. Select a device larger than what your design requires if you may want to add more logic later in the design cycle, or to reserve logic and memory for on-chip debugging.
- Consider requirements for types of dedicated logic blocks, such as memory blocks of different sizes, or digital signal processing (DSP) blocks to implement certain arithmetic functions.