Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition User Guide: Platform Designer

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Date 4/02/2022
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2.16. Generating a Platform Designer System

Platform Designer system generation creates the interconnect between IP components, and generates files for Intel® Quartus® Prime synthesis and simulation in supported third-party tools.

If you make changes to your system, Platform Designer prompts you to generate your system before closing. Generate your system to ensure that the Compiler includes any changes you make to your system.

Follow these steps to generate a Platform Designer system:
  1. Open a system in Platform Designer.
  2. Consider whether to specify a unique generation ID, as Specifying the Generation ID describes.
  3. Click the Generate HDL button. The Generation dialog box appears.
  4. Specify options for generation of Synthesis, Simulation, and testbench files, as Generation Dialog Box Options describes.
  5. Consider whether to specify options for Parallel IP Generation, as Disabling or Enabling Parallel IP Generation describes.
    Figure 45.  Platform Designer Generation Dialog Box
  6. To start system generation, click Generate.
    Note: Platform Designer may add unique suffixes (hashes) to ip component files during generation to ensure uniqueness of the file. The uniqueness of the files is necessary because the IP component is dynamic. The RTL generates during runtime, according to the input parameters. This methodology ensures no collisions between the multiple variants of the same IP. The hash derives from the parameter values that you specify. A given set of parameter values produces the same hash for each generation.