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10 years ago

What is point to point pin assignment in Quartus assignment editor?

What does "point to point assignment" mean in the FPGA design and why do you need to assign a pin for a path? I tried but failed to find a comprehensive tutorial/document (apart from Quartus ha...
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10 years ago

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By the way, where do you come across point to point assignment? I am not aware of this assignment. Anyway, for input and output pin in your design, you would need to do the right pin assignment to ensure it is placed on your desired pin. You can try to search Altera web to see if there is any online training on basic QII.

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In the assignment editor, you have "from" column and "to" column, so when you specify nodes for both columns, this is a point to point assignment yes?