Task and Report Windows (Pin Planner)
You open the Task and Report windows
by clicking or Report Window, respectively.
The Pin Planner Task window provides one-click access to execute common pin planning tasks. After clicking a pin planning task, you view and highlight the results in the Report window by selecting or deselecting I/O types. The Tasks window provides access to launch the following pin planning tasks:
| Task | Description |
|---|---|
| Run Analysis & Elaboration | Elaborates your design to discover all nodes in the design and the target device I/O resources. |
| Early Pin Planning | Allows you to define and plan I/O for design elements not yet included in your design. |
| Run I/O Assignment Analysis | Verifies the legality of synthesized I/O pin assignments. If you have no yet run Quartus® Prime Analysis & Synthesis, only reserved nodes are analyzed. |
| Export Pin Assignments | Generates a text file containing pin assignments in .csv or .tcl formats. You can use this file for scripting or text manipulation of pin assignments. |
| Change View | Changes the perspective or detail in the Pin Planner device view. You can Show I/O Banks, Show VREF Groups, Show Edges, Show DQ/DQS Pins, Show Hard Memory Interface Pins, Show PCIe Hard IP Interface Pins, Show Clock Region Input Pins, Show I/O Modules. |
| Highlight Pins | Highlights and selects various pin types in the current device view for visualization and assignment. You can highlight I/O Banks, VREF Groups, Edges, and various types of, Clock Pins, Memory Pins, and Differential Pins. |
| Report Pins | Allows you to locate specific pins in the device view. |