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11 years ago

How to get Quartus to ignore debug pins in top-level

I apologize if this has been posted before. I'm sure it has, but my search skills have failed to turn up the answer. I have been developing a design using Cyclone IV on a DE2 development board. I ...
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11 years ago

A virtual pin is really for telling quartus that the IOs in your logic are not to be connected to pins, because you will probably connect something else later. Usually used for early compiles with lower level blocks before the upper levels are ready, so you get an idea of your resource usage and timing specs. I dont know how they behave with a final design.

Why not add a constant, or generic in your code that turns the debug on or off? You can set top level generics from within quartus.