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8 years ago

Possible places for Pin assignments for a design

Hi, I have a general question on pin assignments for design. What are the possible places to do pin assignments for any ALtera/ quartus FPGA design? In one of the designs that I have, th...
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8 years ago

They should always be in your .qsf. I believe Fitter Location is where it was placed in the previous compile, and only exists if you have a database. They do not drive the fitter on the next compile. You could go to Project -> Back-Annotate and lock them down, which will put them into the .qsf.