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17 years ago

Disable pin count error for simulation in QuartusII 8.0

How can I make Quartus shut up and compile when I'm trying to compile a part of my design for simulation purposes, it gives me an error about the design having too many pins for the device I have sel...
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17 years ago

Use virtual pins for all top-level ports of this portion of the design that are not device pins in the full design and that are not a clock. The assignment for this is in the Assignment Editor. Virtual pins are documented in the Quartus handbook.

Virtual pins are meant for compiling one portion of the design for bottom-up incremental compilation. I don't know whether you'll run into any simulation issues with them.