1.2. Changes to Software Behavior
This section documents instances in which the behavior and default settings of the Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition software have been changed from earlier releases of the Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition software.
Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition has the following changes:
- The Intel® Quartus® Prime software now generates compressed SOF files by default. Previously, generated SOF files were uncompressed.
- The Transceivers page of the Power and Thermal Calculator has the following changes:
- Option names in the Treatment of unused transceivers field have changed:
- Power Down Unused Dies is now Power Down Unused Transceivers
- Power Up Unused Dies is now Power Up Unused Transceivers
- Preserve Unused Channels on Used and Unused Dies is now Preserve Unused Channels on Used and Unused Transceivers
- Some column names in the table have changed:
- Tile is now Transceiver Type
- XCVR Die ID is now Transceiver ID
- Treatment of unused transceiver dies is now Treatment of unused transceivers
- Tooltips have changed as follows:
- References to tiles or dies are replaced with transceivers
- References to GTS transceivers are added where needed
- Option names in the Treatment of unused transceivers field have changed:
Refer to the Intel® Quartus® Prime Default Settings File (.qdf), <Quartus Prime installation directory>/quartus/bin/assignment_defaults.qdf, for a list of all the default assignment settings for the latest version of the Intel® Quartus® Prime software.