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RFris4
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2 years ago
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How To Create A Custom Platform Designer Component That Uses Intel IP Components

Hi, I have a VHDL design that instantiates Intel components from the IP Catalog (e.g., RAMs, ROMs, etc.) that I want to turn into a component for use in Platform Designer (Quartus Pro). Is this pos...
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    2 years ago

    It's probably possible, but not simple, since you need to add all the Intel IP files in the Component Editor. Instead, simply create a new .qsys with the design using IP from the PD IP Catalog. Then you can add it as a subsystem in any other Platform Designer system.

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2 years ago

It's probably possible, but not simple, since you need to add all the Intel IP files in the Component Editor. Instead, simply create a new .qsys with the design using IP from the PD IP Catalog. Then you can add it as a subsystem in any other Platform Designer system.

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2 years ago

Thanks for the information.

My other option is to create an interface component in PD that I will manually wire up to the existing VHDL design.

It would be very useful if Intel documented preferred and supported design patterns for Quartus / PD rather than just giving information about all possible methods and leave it up to the users to figure out which ones aren't (easily) compatible with each other.