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11 years ago

How does the compilation process work?

I have a question regarding the compilation process. Considering a multi-layer hierarchically hardware description, how does Quartus handle the compilation? Does it unwrap all layers and then...
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11 years ago

Basically yes, but heirarchy information is kept so it is easy to navigate the technology map, and you can map a specific register all the way from source code onto the FPGA.