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12 years ago

Locating PLLs, Transceivers, etc in Stratix V device with Chip Planner

How do I filter on the PLLs, Transceivers or any other block in the device view using Chip Planner? I'm targeting a Stratix V device 5SGXEA7N2F45C2.

I've been able to use Find to locate the PLLs that I'm using in my design. I haven't figured out how to report and display where any PLL, transceiver, or any block is located and not just what my design is using.

I ran in to a fitter error yesterday where I had two clocks assigned to bank 7D where one clock is sourcing three PLLs and the other clock does not. I moved to bank 7A and it's no longer an issue. So I'd like to view where these blocks are located to understand the layout.

Regards,

Mark

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    Altera_Forum
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    12 years ago

    Along the same lines, how do I filter on modules in the device view? I want to see how blocks are placed.

    Attached is a screen shot for my design in Xilinx' PlanAhead device view tool with selected modules colorized. Is there a way to do similar in Quartus?