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8 years ago

Export synthesized top-module and import in another project

I am working on a project where different engineers will be developing different modules of a large design completely separately. The design must be entirely bottom-up because the module developers m...
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8 years ago

Check out this online training:

https://www.altera.com/support/training/course/obbdr100.html

and this app note:

https://www.altera.com/content/dam/altera-www/global/en_us/pdfs/literature/tt/tt-intel-fpga-design-reuse.pdf

The training is based off of 17.0 while the app note uses 17.1, so the process of creating the root_partition export in the developer project is a little easier (it's in the GUI now). I think you're missing that the root_partition doesn't get imported into the consumer project; it essentially *becomes* the consumer project for the consumer to "fill in" with the internal design in the designated empty partition "hole".