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16 years ago

Synopsys DesignWare with Quartus II

Hello, I'm a new user of QuartusII/Altera FPGA since 2 weeks :). I have a RTL database using Synopsys DesignWare and I wonder if QuartusII supports them (synthetise them correctly). If ...
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16 years ago

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Hi,

as far as I know you could not use Quartus for synthesis of DesignWare elements. I had a similar problem with ChipWare elements ( that are the corresponding elements from Cadence). I generated a netlist for each element.

When you use Certify from Synopsys (former Synplicity) as synthesis tool, you can use directly the DesignWare elements. Maybe SynplifyPro supports DesignWare elements also.

I have to check that.

Kind regards

GPK

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Hi,

only Certify and Synplify Premier supports Designware elements.

Kind regards

GPK