AN 1006: Multi-Project Analysis with Exploration Dashboard

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Answers to Top FAQs 1. About This Application Note 2. Exploration Dashboard Multi-Project Analysis Tutorial Steps 3. Additional Exploration Dashboard Workflows 4. Analyzing Exploration Dashboard Reports 5. Document Revision History of AN 1006: Multi-Project Analysis with Exploration Dashboard
1. About This Application Note x
1.1. Tutorial Prerequisites 1.2. Example Design Setup
2. Exploration Dashboard Multi-Project Analysis Tutorial Steps x
2.1. Step 1: Create an Exploration Dashboard Workspace 2.2. Step 2: Add Projects to Exploration Dashboard 2.3. Step 3: Launch Connections and Compile the Projects 2.4. Step 4: Import and Analyze Timing Summary Reports 2.5. Step 5: Analyze the Results of Report Timing 2.6. Step 6: Disconnecting Interactive Connections
3. Additional Exploration Dashboard Workflows x
3.1. Using Exploration Dashboard in Offline Mode 3.2. Using Exploration Dashboard in Batch Mode
3.1. Using Exploration Dashboard in Offline Mode x
3.1.1. Step 1: Enable Creation of Compilation Databases for Exploration Dashboard 3.1.2. Step 2: Create an Exploration Dashboard Workspace in Local Mode 3.1.3. Step 3: Import Generated Compilation Databases 3.1.4. Step 4: Analyzing Databases in Offline Mode
3.2. Using Exploration Dashboard in Batch Mode x
3.2.1. Step 1: Create an Exploration Dashboard Workspace in Local Mode 3.2.2. Step 2: Configure Maximum Connections 3.2.3. Step 3: Generate Default Reports in Batch Mode
4. Analyzing Exploration Dashboard Reports x
4.1. Report Timing 4.2. Report Retiming Recommendations 4.3. Report Hierarchy Placement 4.4. Report Asynchronous CDC 4.5. Report Design Assistant (Sign-off)
Answers to Top FAQs
1. About This Application Note
2. Exploration Dashboard Multi-Project Analysis Tutorial Steps
3. Additional Exploration Dashboard Workflows
4. Analyzing Exploration Dashboard Reports
5. Document Revision History of AN 1006: Multi-Project Analysis with Exploration Dashboard

1. About This Application Note

This application note demonstrates how to use the Exploration Dashboard GUI, available with the Quartus® Prime Pro Edition software, to simultaneously analyze the compilation results from multiple Quartus® Prime projects.

The Exploration Dashboard allows you to easily coordinate and view the compilation and timing results from multiple projects running on separate instances of the Quartus® Prime software to help you achieve last-mile timing closure faster. For example, you can analyze and compare versions of the same design that differ by RTL changes, or perhaps only differ by project settings. The Exploration Dashboard provides the power and flexibility to support multi-project analysis for a diverse range of workflows and analysis tasks.1

The steps of the following walkthrough tutorial demonstrate how to launch and coordinate multiple instances of the Quartus® Prime Pro Edition software to simultaneously open, compile, and analyze different provided example design projects. This particular tutorial uses the SSH protocol to connect the software instances together. However, Exploration Dashboard also supports a variety of other common compute farm infrastructures for connecting to multiple software instances, such as Slurm Workload Manager, IBM Spectrum* LSF, and Altair PBS Professional*.


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Tutorial Prerequisites
Example Design Setup

1 Exploration Dashboard is pre-production status in Quartus® Prime Pro Edition v.24.3.
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