Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition User Guide: Platform Designer

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Date 10/04/2021
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1.3. Creating or Opening a Platform Designer System

You can launch Platform Designer from the Intel® Quartus® Prime software to create or open a Platform Designer system.

When you create or open a system, Platform Designer requires that you specify the Intel® Quartus® Prime project to contain this system. If this project does not yet exist, you can define a new project from within Platform Designer. Alternatively, you can specify an existing project. When you launch Platform Designer with an Intel® Quartus® Prime project open, Platform Designer automatically specifies that project by default.

After specifying the project, you select an existing system to open, or specify the name of a new system to create.

Follow these steps to create or open a Platform Designer system:

  1. In the Intel® Quartus® Prime software, click File > Open Project to open the Intel® Quartus® Prime project that you want to include the Platform Designer system. You can optionally skip this step and launch Platform Designer in view-only mode without opening a project.
  2. Click Tools > Platform Designer. Platform Designer launches and displays the Open Project dialog box automatically.
  3. Specify the Quartus project. If you have a project open, this project name appears automatically. Otherwise, browse for an existing project, or click the Create New Quartus Project button and specify a new project name. Selecting None for Quartus project opens Platform Designer in view-only mode.
    Figure 3.  Platform Designer Open System Dialog Box
  4. Select the Platform Designer system, or click the Create New Platform Designer System button and specify the name of a new system. Optionally select a specific revision of your project, or click the Create New Revision button and define a new project revision.
  5. Change the project associated with a Platform Designer system at any time by clicking File > Select Quartus Project in Platform Designer.