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9 years ago

Incompatibility Quartus 17 Pro vs 17 Standard

My understanding is that the Quartus 17 Pro edition is a new software architecture and that the only way to transfer a circuit designed within the Quartus 17 Standard environment to the Pro environme...
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9 years ago

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Yes, a standard project can be opened in pro. You'll get a warning that it will be converted to a pro database and that you can't go back to standard.

Once in pro, you can create a .qdb file from a design partition and then import that into another pro project.

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Getting back to the issue of exporting a qxp file from Standard to Pro, which would be better for me, since it's just a netlist and not the source code, I could export a qxp version of my circuit in Standard. Then I could create another project in Standard using the imported qxp file. Finally, couldn't the "qxp" project in Standard be opened in Pro, so it is essentially a way of exporting a qxp file to Pro?