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11 years ago

Does Quartus support using a VHDL configuration as a top-level entity?

The question title says it all. I thought it would be pretty straightforward to do so, since Quartus already handles most of the configuration capabilities of VHDL, and this should be possible as spe...
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11 years ago

Dave, thanks for the pointer, this is really interesting stuff. After looking into the project source code and instructables (http://www.oreganosystems.at/download/mc8051_cyclone_nios_designflow.pdf), I gather that in the Oregano 8051 design configurations are not to used for synthesis. Also, most of the synthesis process (at least everything that is vendor-agnostic) is done with Synplify Pro.

Seems to support the general idea that configurations are not much used for synthesis...

Thanks,