Intel® Quartus® Prime Standard Edition User Guide: Partial Reconfiguration

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Date 9/24/2018
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1.4.2. Incremental Compilation Partitions for Partial Reconfiguration

Use the following best practices guidelines when creating partitions for PR regions in your design:
  • Register all partition boundaries; register all inputs and outputs of each partition when possible. This practice prevents any delay penalties on signals that cross partition boundaries and keeps each register-to-register timing path within one partition for optimization.
  • Minimize the number of paths that cross partition boundaries.
  • Minimize the timing-critical paths passing in or out of PR regions. If there are timing-critical paths that cross PR region boundaries, rework the PR regions to avoid these paths.
  • The Intel® Quartus® Prime software can optimize some types of paths between design partitions for non-PR designs. However, for PR designs, such inter-partition paths are strictly not optimized.