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13 years ago

What is difference between pin planner and Assignment editor?

There are two sub menus in Assignments menu are pin planner and Assignment editor. What are the differences between them? As my basic understanding, I can use both of them to assign the pins.

And if I want to check the physical locations of some components inside FPGA (such as PLL), which tool in Quartus II I can use to do this?

Thanks very much.

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    13 years ago

    Buddha1987:

    I thought by now you forgotten about it or figured it out by just trying it. Assignment editor is the tool for assigning various things including pins.

    Pin editor is special tool for pin assignment including a nice panorama of pins and I am sure you will like it better than assignment editor for pin assignment.
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    13 years ago

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    Buddha1987:

    I thought by now you forgotten about it or figured it out by just trying it. Assignment editor is the tool for assigning various things including pins.

    Pin editor is special tool for pin assignment including a nice panorama of pins and I am sure you will like it better than assignment editor for pin assignment.

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    Thanks very much, kaz. That means it is better to use pin editor if I just need assign pins.