Honored ContributorI have some projects at my job that I've inherited that have a lot of files declared in the .qsf. I'm certain that not all of these files are actually instantiated and used in the design. Does anyone know an easy way in Quartus to identify what files aren't used in the design, so I can clean up my files in the .qsf?
Thanks.
Honored ContributorIt should say "Can't find file..." if the file doesn't exist, so if there are any pointers to non-existing files, those are easy. I'm not sure of anything that says a file was read in but not used. You could move all the source so none of it is found, then when it complains about not finding what it needs(it will start with the top-level) copy them back over to where they should be. Would work if its tens of files, but probably not worth the effort if you have hundreds of files.
Under Analysis & Synthesis report is a section called Source Files Read, and it has a column called Used in Netlist. This seems like it would be what you want, but when I added a small file that doesn't get used, it doesn't show up in this list with an N(to say it's not used). Instead, it doesn't show up at all. You could probably use that information to compare against files being read in, but again, something of a manual process.Honored ContributorI'm not sure about this, but maybe there's a way to "archive" the project where it will retain only the files currently in use. Then when you "restore" it (to another directory) you'll have only the files you need.
