qxp file issues

Hi again,

Just one final question with regard to this issue.

I have sucessfully compiled my partitioned design but in certain partitions, I have some ports which are unused at the moment. They seem to appear as dangling ports in the pin planner even though they are not actual I/O´s.

Could someone explain to me what a dangling port is? an unused one?

Also they are interfering with timequest and it is complaining of 100´s of unconstrained paths, even though the design was fully constrained before partitioning. UJpon inspection they are mostly due to dangling ports.

I would be grateful if someone could let me know the best way to deal with dangling ports and explain exactly how they come to be?

Many thanks for the help.