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Unconstrained I/O when using design partitions

VCham
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Hello I am doing late floorplanning and have started with setting up design partitions. 

To start I have a single partition set to post-fit.

 

My issue is that upon compilation, I get a ton of unconstrained i/o from the new partition. What is the correct way to constrain these i/o? I'm only familiar with constraining top level i/o

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sstrell
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Can you explain what is complete in your design?  When you say I/O, those are usually top-level, so it's not clear what you mean by unconstrained I/O that are not top-level.

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VCham
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Before attempting partitioning, my design was fully complete. There were zero unconstrained I/O. Timing was being met.

 

When I added a design partition, the TimeQuest Analyzer reported 46 unconstrained output ports. Looking at the signals they are just an avalon memory mapped address bus that is an input to the partition. I am not sure why it's being called out as unconstrained. 

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AqidAyman_Intel
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Hi Valentina,


What device is you using and which edition of Quartus?


Regards,

Aqid


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VCham
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Quartus II Standard 17.0.2

Cyclone V

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sstrell
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So your design was complete and you simply set part of it as a design partition, recompiled, and got this?  Can you show your design partition settings/assignments?  For some reason, the connections from your design partition to the root partition of your design are missing.  Simply setting an entity as a design partition should not cause this to happen.  You're not using virtual pin assignments, are you?

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VCham
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Since my last post I've tried the autopartitioner to help with different issues. But I'm still getting the same unconstrained paths.

These are the current partition settings. I am not using any virtual pins.

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AqidAyman_Intel
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Hi,


Can you try the steps to size and and place regions after compilation as in Best Practices for Incremental Compilation Partitions and Floorplan Assignments page 15-45?


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AqidAyman_Intel
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Hi Valentina,


Any updates on the status from your side? Does it resolve your issue?


Regards,

Aqid


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AqidAyman_Intel
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