Forum Discussion

Altera_Forum's avatar
Altera_Forum
Icon for Honored Contributor rankHonored Contributor
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...
Altera_Forum's avatar
Altera_Forum
Icon for Honored Contributor rankHonored Contributor
7 years ago

@sstrell thank you for all of your help so far. I tried to export my project via Project->Export Design or quartus_cdp --export_design, but then if I try to use it in the consumer project, I see the following error message:

Error (18633): The archive "my_top_module.qdb" contains a full design and cannot be imported via the import_block comamnd nor as a source file in the QSF.

Is it absolutely true that you must create a wrapper module in order to export your top-module as a non-root partition? This will create significant complications for me, so I want to determine whether or not this is absolutely necessary before I proceed.