Quartus® Prime Pro Edition User Guide: Platform Designer

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Date 9/30/2024
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1.20.3. Including Platform Designer Systems in Project Archives

You can optionally save the elements of an Quartus® Prime project—including any Platform Designer system or IP—in a single, compressed Quartus® Prime Archive File (.qar). The .qar can preserve the project and settings files, source design files, IP and system files, programming output files, and all other files required to fully restore the project in the Quartus® Prime software.

The archive .qar allows you to easily share projects between designers, or to transfer your project to a new version of the Quartus® Prime software, or to Intel customer support. You can optionally include compilation reports, Platform Designer system files, and EDA tool integration files in the project archive.

You can fully customize the list of files that the archive includes, to ensure that your archive captures all custom IP and other files that you want to preserve. The Archive Project dialog box includes preset File sets that automatically include the appropriate detected files for Source control, Service requests, and other archiving scenarios.

By default, the Archive Project command includes detected Platform Designer system and IP files that are part of your project. Follow these steps to confirm that your project archive includes the Platform Designer system and IP files that you want:

  1. Open an Quartus® Prime project (.qpf) that includes your Platform Designer system and IP.
  2. Click Project > Archive Project and specify an Archive file name.
    Figure 102. Archive Project Dialog Box
  3. Click the Advanced button. The Advanced Archive Settings dialog box appears.
  4. Select Source control, Service requests, or Compilation Database and output for the File set. All of these File sets include detected Platform Designer system and IP files in the archive automatically. Turn on or off the File subsets you want in the archive.
  5. To customize the Files to be archived list, click the Add or Remove buttons to include or remove specific files.
  6. To save the archive settings, click OK.
    Figure 103. Advanced Archive Settings Dialog Box
  7. To generate the project archive file, click the Archive button.
  8. To restore the archived project (including the Platform Designer system and IP), click Project > Restore Archived Project. Select the Archive name, and Destination folder to extract the restored files.
    Figure 104.