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13 years ago

Explicitly leave pins unassigned in Quartus?

There are pins in the ports of my top level entity that I do not want assigned to any pin, but I don't want the fitter auto-assigning them for me. Is there a way to designate a port as "do not assig...
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13 years ago

One way is to use a wrapper that has only the ports that you require and bury others inside. I assume you mean outputs which can be left open. For inputs you may run into trouble if undriven.

There is also the setting of virtual pin but I am not sure if it is good for your purpose.