New Contributor
Super ContributorYes, Quartus Pro edition had remove this function.
The reason of the removal is Intel want to encourage user to use coding instead of schematic to do the design. There are no plan to bring this function back.
New ContributorKenny,
Please let your Quartus Pro software designers know that the solution to this problem is very simple. All that is needed is to incorporate the .BSF symbol building function as part of the Platform or IP Designer programs. By simply providing an option to build a .bsf instead of a full IP module from the library, this allows the .bsf symbol to be treated exactly like the .IP files, and everything works perfectly! Even things like .SDC constraint files and IEEE encryption can be managed using this .bsf symbol approach. That should would help us old poor electrical engineers out here with no way to manage our own IP!
(P.S., I'm not such a beginner!)
-Cheers
New ContributorKenny,
I don't want to be-labor this point ... but the idea that Intel wants to move Engineers back to HDL coding is ridiculous. Intel is telling us they want to move us to a higher level of abstraction. That's all that the schematic does .... is gives us a higher level of abstraction! SCHEMATICS ARE IMMEDIATELY CONVERTED TO HDL BEFORE COMPILING NOW! if Intel would put a little more effort into the schematic editor, the symbol editor, and make it part of platform designer, that would be a big help for us, and for Intel.
Some point's Intel should consider:
1) SCHEMATICS ARE IMMEDIATELY CONVERTED TO HDL BEFORE COMPILING NOW ANYWAYS!
2) QUARTUS PRO ALREADY SUPPORTS BLOCK SYMBOLS FOR ALL ITS IP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (you can't claim what you're claiming)
REMEMBER .... XILINX VIVADO still supports block symbol entry with total backing !!!!
This whole deprecation (converting HDL to .BSF) is stopping engineers from developing their own IP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-Cheers
