CKPope
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2 years agoFitter Pin Placement Constraint
Hello, I am a Lab Instructor at the University of Waterloo. I have to provide some background context for the situation we now have. An in-house board was developed way back when Quartus was still...
- 2 years ago
Thank you !
Your work-around solution worked !!!!
All of the FPGA pins are assigned for the development board that we use in-house.
We use a .tcl script for the students to run before they begin their FPGA designs. The .tcl script has all pin assignment made.
When doing a Full Compile (v18.1 LITE) with the assignments the compile fails because of the earlier mentioned Fitter analysis.
If I then, comment out the pin assignment (see for leds[1] below) and save and run the .tcl file, the FPGA will now have that output pin unassigned.
Then, like you mentioned, the Fitter will auto-place that output pin to the only available pin left to the FPGA.
BUT this time, the compile will now complete without any error.
Thank you so much.
Charles