Node Finder (View Menu)

To access the Node Finder from Intel® Quartus® Prime software, click View > Node Finder

Allows you to find any node name in a compiled Intel® Quartus® Prime project, based on the specified search criteria.

These options are available when you click the Show More Search Options button:

Named:

Specifies the node name, partial node name, and/or standard wildcard characters that limit the search to node names matching the specified text.

List:

Starts the node name search using the current settings and filter.

Expand all/ Collapse all:

Allows you to expand or collapse the view of nodes in the Nodes Found list.

Selected Nodes:

Displays the nodes that you copy to this list by clicking Copy to Selected Nodes list or Copy all to Selected Nodes list.

Filter:

Specifies the current Intel-provided or custom filter. The Intel® Quartus® Prime software includes the following non-editable, default filters. You can use these filters to perform a node name search, or you can create a new filter using any of the Intel-provided filter settings as the initial settings.

  • Pins: assigned-- Finds all pin names assigned locations or other pin-related assignments.
  • Pins: unassigned-- Finds all pin names not assigned locations or other pin related assignments.
  • Pins: input-- Finds all input pin names in your design file(s).
  • Pins: output-- Finds all output pin names in your design file(s).
  • Pins: bidirectional-- Finds all bidirectional pin names in your design file(s).
  • Pins: virtual-- Finds names of all I/O elements mapped to logic elements with aVirtual Pinlogic option assignment.
  • Pins: all-- Finds all pin names in your design file(s).
  • Pins: all & Registers: post-fitting-- Finds all pin names in your design along with all register names from your design filesthat persist after physical synthesis and fitting. This filter is a combination of the Pins: all and Registers: post-fitting filters.
  • Registers: pre-synthesis-- Finds all user-entered register names contained in the design after Analysis and Elaboration, but before physical synthesis performs any synthesis optimizations.
  • Registers: post-fitting-- Finds all user-entered register names in your design file(s) that survived physical synthesis and fitting.
  • Design Entry (all names)-- Finds all user-entered names in your design file(s).
  • Post-synthesis-- Finds all user-entered and synthesis-generated names contained in the design after design elaboration and physical synthesis.
  • Post-Compilation-- Finds all user-centered and Compiler-generated names that persist post fit and do not have location assignments.
  • Signal Tap: pre-synthesis-- Finds all internal device nodes in the pre-synthesis netlist that can be analyzed by the Signal Tap Logic Analyzer.
  • Signal Tap: post-fitting-- Finds all internal device nodes in the post fit netlist that can be analyzed by the Signal Tap Logic Analyzer.
  • Signal Probe-- Finds all Signal Probe device nodes in the post fit netlist.

Customize:

Opens the Customize Filter dialog box.

Look in:

Allows you to view and edit the current search hierarchy path. You can type the search hierarchy path in the Look in box, or browse to select the search hierarchy level in the Select Hierarchy Level dialog box. In addition, you can move up the search hierarchy by deleting hierarchical names from the Look in box.

Include subentities:

Includes node names that are below the current search hierarchy level in the node name search.

Hierarchy view:

Allows you to view nodes in the Nodes Found list in hierarchy levels.