Forum Discussion

Altera_Forum's avatar
Altera_Forum
Icon for Honored Contributor rankHonored Contributor
14 years ago

How can i make bidirectional pins virtual? :(

I am working on a design with bidirectional interfaces having an io count of more than 2000. I want to fit the design on a device and check its timings. But the max available pin count is hardly 1000...
Altera_Forum's avatar
Altera_Forum
Icon for Honored Contributor rankHonored Contributor
14 years ago

now that i think about it, this still may not work. anyhow...

1. port map the bidir bus to an HDL file that defines the bidir I/O but nothing else

2. run Analysis and Elaboration

3. find the bidir dummy module in the Hiearchy window

4. right click and create a new parition

5. in Assignments > Design Partitions change the Netlist Type for the dummy partition to Empty