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Honored ContributorHow 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...
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Honored Contributornow 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
