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out_of_context mode equivalent in quartus tool

Altera_Forum
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Hi Forum, 

I am a beginner in using quartus tool. I have a question regarding I/O buffer insertion in quartus. Earlier I used Vivado tool for synthesizing my design and I used out of context mode in vivado (which will make sure that no IOBUFs are getting inferred for submodules) when I did analysis on sub modules in my design. I wanted to know the out_of_context equivalent in quartus tool or how to tell quartus tool not to infer IO buffers. 

 

Thank you, 

Vamsi
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Altera_Forum
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There is no OOC mode in quartus. 

But what you can do is declare signals as "virtual pins". Using this, you can synthesis a module without it attempting to connect your module ports to IOs
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