MAX® 10 FPGA Design Guidelines

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Date 5/15/2024
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1.7.12. Perform timing budgeting and resource balancing between partitions

If your design is created in multiple projects, it is important that the system architect provide guidance to designers of lower-level blocks to ensure that each partition uses the appropriate device resources:
  • Because the designs are developed independently, each lower-level designer has no information about the overall design or how their partition connects with other partitions, which can lead to problems during system integration.
  • The top-level project information, including pin locations, physical constraints, and timing requirements, should be communicated to the designers of lower-level partitions before they start their design.
  • The system architect can plan design partitions at the top level and use the Quartus® Prime software Generate Bottom-Up Design Partition Scripts option on the Project menu to automate the process of transferring top-level project information to lower-level modules.