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18 years ago

Connecting nodes without wires

One of the tutorials I found online says that nodes can be connected without wires on complicated schematics. "Since our example schematic is quite simple, it is easy to draw all the wires in t...
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18 years ago

I think the best way to do this is to use the RTL viewer. That will show the logical connections between your blocks. Why is your RTL viewer is grayed out? Are you using web edition?

Otherwise you have to make sure you type in the correct name. If you make a typo on one of the nets (and assuming you don't have another net with the same name as your typo) the Quartus fitter should catch the mistake when you compile since one of the nets will not have a source.

I know this is not ideal, but these are the only options I can think of. Maybe ask Altera for an enhancement?