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11 years ago

Gate Logic missing in my Symbol Editor?

Hi,

I generated a qsys setup. Now I would like to edit the generated .bsf with the symbol editor. After that, I want to add it to my project. I went File -> Open... here, I navigated to my component: ./soc/soc.bsf, then clicked on it. The block/symbol editor opened automatically (is there actually a menu item for it?) on the component. Just the component. Nothing attached. In the editor I see, I don't have no AND gate icon in the small icon list. It's simply missing. Anyway, there is no way of connecting two pins with e.g. a logic NOR gate which I actually need to do. I did this like months ago in another Quartus2 13.1 setup, but here it seems to be missing / not available.

Q: What am I doing wrong? How may can I set a logic NOR gate?

System: quartus II 13.1 (web), Linux Debian

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    11 years ago

    From what you write I guess you are using the symbol editor, whose purpose is to change the appearance of the symbol in the block editor. This is not supposed to change or add any logic, nor connecting pins.

    To do this, you need to open a project top level .bdf file, add the soc.bsf symbol: here you can then add whatever logic gates you need and possibly connect pins.
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    11 years ago

    I didn't find a .bdf file, so far... So, I did File -> New... -> Block Diagram/Schematic File, this was it: I see the AND gate icon. I saved it at top level, the rest as you told me! Awesome! Great!! Thank you very much! :)