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

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Date 10/04/2021
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4. Optimizing Platform Designer System Performance

Platform Designer provides tools that allow you to optimize the performance of the system interconnect for Intel FPGA designs. This chapter presents techniques that leverage the available tools and the trade offs of each implementation.

The foundation of any system is the interconnect logic that connects hardware blocks or components. Creating interconnect logic is time consuming and prone to errors, and existing interconnect logic is difficult to modify when design requirements change. The Platform Designer system integration tool addresses these issues and provides an automatically generated and optimized interconnect designed to satisfy the system requirements.

Platform Designer supports Avalon® , AMBA* 3 AXI (version 1.0), AMBA* 4 AXI (version 2.0), AMBA* 4 AXI-Lite (version 2.0), AMBA* 4 AXI-Stream (version 1.0), and AMBA* 3 APB (version 1.0) interface specifications.

Note: Recommended Intel practices may improve clock frequency, throughput, logic utilization, or power consumption of a Platform Designer design. When you design a Platform Designer system, use your knowledge of the design intent and goals to further optimize system performance beyond the automated optimization available in Platform Designer.