1.1. New Features and Enhancements
Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition Software Version 22.3 includes functional and security updates. Keep your software up-to-date and follow the technical recommendations that help to improve the security of your Intel® Quartus® Prime installation.
New Intel® Quartus® Prime Device Support and Device Support Enhancements
- Added support for new Intel® Agilex™ devices. For details, refer to Changes in Device Support.
New Intel® Quartus® Prime GUI Features and Enhancements
- Enhanced the Logic Lock Regions window of the Chip Planner with a Compilation Regions tab. This read-only tab displays the properties of any Logic Lock regions contained in a .qdb file in the current project.
- Enhanced the RTL Analyzer with the following new interfaces:
- Connectivity Tracer, which enables tracing fan-out and fan-in cones from or to an instance port (bus) or a top-level port.
- Object Set Console, which displays all currently selected, highlighted, or colored nodes in the schematic viewer.
New Compiler Features and Enhancements
- Increased the maximum number of processors cores that the Compiler can use to 24 cores.
- Added support for force statements in HDL code.
- Added support for cross-module referencing (XMR) in HDL code.
New Programmer Features and Enhancements
- Added the ability to create a file system partition in the flash memory.
New Configuration Debugger Features and Enhancements
- Added ability to monitor voltage of the available external channels and internal power supplies of SDM-based devices.
- Added ability to monitor temperature of the core fabric, HSSI channels, and UIB blocks of SDM-based devices.
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Added ability to parse programming files (.sof, .pmsf, .rbf, .jic, .rpd, and .pof)
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Added ability to send generic SDM mailbox commands using the generic command line interface.
New Synthesis Features and Enhancements
- Enhanced the Registers Removed During Synthesis report to be a dynamic report. With dynamic reports, you can interact with a report that appears to be cut off in the GUI due to display limits. Report items for dynamic reports are stored in an SQLite database that you can access through Tcl commands.
- Added a new Additional Pragma Usages report to report Verific-only pragmas such as translate_on and translate_off.
New Timing Analyzer Features and Enhancements
- (Beta) Enhanced the Design Netlist Infrastructure (DNI) support with the following features:
- Enabled post-synthesis static timing analysis (STA). This stage is called Early Timing Analysis in the compilation dashboard. Early Timing Analysis provides you with a faster turnaround on designs and early constraint checking,
- Enabled Synopsys* design constraint on RTL targets (SDC-on-RTL).
Use this feature to apply SDCs on an RTL netlist instead of the timing names generated by the Intel® Quartus® Prime software. You can apply the constraints on hierarchical names as well as primitives. This feature provides a convenient way to specify SDCs.
- Enhanced the Report Register Statistics report (formerly Report Reset Statistics report) to highlight places with Hyper-Registers, reset control signals, and enable control signals. Use this information, along with timing slack, congestion, and other analysis reports, to sanity check register control signals, identify timing critical parts of your design where you can remove resets, or change control schemes to more easily meet timing requirements.
New Advanced Link Analyzer Features and Enhancements
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Updated Intel® Agilex™ F-tile transceiver supports.
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Added custom forward clocking modeling and simulation supports.
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Updated COM/ERL support for 106G Ethernet and 112G CEI standards.
New Power and Thermal Calculator Features and Enhancements
- Added support for RTL hierarchies. You can enter hierarchy information and report power data for each level of your design hierarchy.
Bug Fixes
Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition Software Version 22.3 also include bug fixes. Review Software Issues Resolved and Software Patches Included in this Release to see if this version contains fixes for or otherwise resolves any of your customer service requests.