help: where is "LE" or "LUT" component (or "how do I create my own components?")

Hello Bootstrap,

I feel your pain. I am pretty new to this FPGA stuff also, and it is amazing that a program that is supposed to make your life so much easier when it comes to designing something that "you" need, can do the exact opposite. I also have been working on a design, that would work perfectly inside of a LUT, but also had no luck finding one in Quartus. I'd be interested to see if anybody actually helps you, because I really can't. I do know, that if you can get your hands on a quartus "front" program, such as DSP Builder (which uses Matlab's Simulink), they have LUT's that can be somehow implemented. You loose a lot of control over your design though, which is why I am now just using Quartus, which, as you know, has plenty of issues of its own.

Thanks for the story, and sorry I can't be of any help.

Dave