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12 years ago

How to manually place a component with Quartus II

How do you manually place a component on a FPGA with Quartus ? i.e. I have the coordinates where I want to put the component on the FPGA, how do I use them with my VHDL code to say to Quartus 'put th...
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12 years ago

Thanks Tricky, I'll try it. Meanwhile, I'd like to know something else.

I'll tried the first thing you said to manually place a component. And I have a new problem. I created a component, and instead of looking for the name of each sub-component, I instantiated the global component with my own name, so I can place it naming the global component in the .qsf . My problem now is that my component takes more than one 'LAB' cell, as you can see in the file attached. So when I write this code line in the .qsf file :

set_location_assignment LAB_X9_Y49_N0 -to inst_test

Quartus ignores the line since the location specified is too small for my component. Is there a way for me to solve the problem ? Because when I did that, I thought that when Quartus instantiates a global component, it uses a sub-component as a reference for the placement, and I just had to specify its location, and Quartus deduces itself the location for the other sub-component.