Layers

Allows you to specify the graphic elements displayed for a given layer preset. When you turn on or off the display of graphic elements, the settings apply to both the Chip Planner view and the Bird's Eye View. When you turn off graphic elements you can increase window refresh speed and reduce visual clutter when viewing complex designs.

You can choose whether to display the following graphic elements:

• Background— The background color indicating the relative level of resource usage for different areas of the device.
• • None— No background color map.
  • Block Utilization— Indicates relative block usage.
  • Design Partition Planner— Optimized for use in conjunction with the Design Partition Planner, to display the physical placement of design entities.
• LogicLock Regions— Displays LogicLock regions.
• • User-assigned LogicLock Regions— User-assigned LogicLock regions.
  • Fitter-placed LogicLock Regions— Fitter-placed LogicLock regions.

• Clock Regions— The regional clocks to be displayed in the Chip Planner. Regional clock display is available for supported device(Arria series, CycloneIII, CycloneIV, CycloneV, StratixIII, StratixIV, and Stratix V) families.
• • Global Clock Region— Displays only global clock regions.
  • Local Clock Region— Displays only local clock regions.
  • LVDS Clock Region— Displays only LVDS clock regions.
  • Regional Clock Region— Displays only regional (quadrant) clock regions.
  • Periphery Clock Region— Displays only periphery (P) clock regions.

• Overlay Objects— Additional objects to be displayed.
• • Connection Lines—Connections resulting from any of the Chip Planner's Generate commands.
  • Labels—Labels on displayed connections resulting from any of the Chip Planner's Generate commands.
  • Differential Pin Pairs—Differential pin pairs. The function of this control is similar to the Show Differential Pin Pair Connections command.
  • Report Overlay—Graphic elements resulting from any of the Chip Planner's generated reports.

• Routing Details— Routing information.
• • Local Routing— Logic routing within blocks.
  • Global Routing— Logic routing between blocks.

• Logic Details— Logic information.
• • Logic Details— Detailed display of logic features.
  • Ports— Ports.

• Node Coloring— Coloring scheme for node display.
• • None— No node coloring.
  • Partition Based— Nodes are colored according to partition membership.
  • Utilization Level Based— Nodes are colored according to their level of utilization.

• Other—Other objects to be displayed.
• • Unused Resources— Unused resources.
  • Pin and Location Assignments— Pin assignments and location assignments.