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Altera_Forum
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12 years ago

working with the pin planner

Hi, this is my first post here and I'm as new and bloody to FPGA's. Please, don't get too angry with me asking probably obvious things, or perhaps in the wrong part of the forum (smile). On an ...
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12 years ago

When working with development kits, there is usually a "golden" example project that has all the pins defined. I recommend to use the .qsf file from that project, and then when you import code from another example, to change the port names in the top level HDL code to match those in the golden qsf file.

I find it much easier to work like that rather than taking the qsf file from the example you want to compile and then change the pin assignments to match those on your kit.