New Contributor
Super ContributorYes, Quartus Pro edition had remove this function.
The reason of the removal is Intel want to encourage user to use coding instead of schematic to do the design. There are no plan to bring this function back.
New ContributorKenny,
I don't want to be-labor this point ... but the idea that Intel wants to move Engineers back to HDL coding is ridiculous. Intel is telling us they want to move us to a higher level of abstraction. That's all that the schematic does .... is gives us a higher level of abstraction! SCHEMATICS ARE IMMEDIATELY CONVERTED TO HDL BEFORE COMPILING NOW! if Intel would put a little more effort into the schematic editor, the symbol editor, and make it part of platform designer, that would be a big help for us, and for Intel.
Some point's Intel should consider:
1) SCHEMATICS ARE IMMEDIATELY CONVERTED TO HDL BEFORE COMPILING NOW ANYWAYS!
2) QUARTUS PRO ALREADY SUPPORTS BLOCK SYMBOLS FOR ALL ITS IP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (you can't claim what you're claiming)
REMEMBER .... XILINX VIVADO still supports block symbol entry with total backing !!!!
This whole deprecation (converting HDL to .BSF) is stopping engineers from developing their own IP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-Cheers
