Specifications

CHAPTER 2: DESIGN ENTRY
CREATING A PROJECT
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Creating a Project
You can create a new project by using the New Project Wizard (File menu)
or the quartus_map executable. When creating a new project, you specify
the working directory for the project, assign the project name, and designate
the name of the top-level design entity. You can also specify which design
files, other source files, user libraries, and EDA tools you want to use in the
project, as well as the target device (or allow the Quartus II software to
automatically select a device). Table 1 lists the project and settings files for a
Quartus II project.
Once you have created a project, you can add and remove design files and
other files from the project using the Settings dialog box (Assignments
menu). During Quartus II Analysis & Synthesis, the Quartus II software
processes the files in the order they appear in the Files page.
You can also copy an entire project to a new directory by using the Copy
Project command (Project menu). This command allows you to copy the
project design database files, design files, settings files, and report files to a
new directory and then open the project in the new directory. If the new
directory does not exist, the Quartus II software will create it.
Table 1. Quartus II Project Files
File Type Description
Quartus II Project File (.qpf) Specifies the version of the Quartus II software used to
create the project and the revisions associated with
the project.
Quartus II Settings
File (.qsf)
Contains all revision-wide or individual assignments
you made with the Assignment Editor, Floorplan
Editor, Settings dialog box (Assignments menu), Tcl
scripts, or Quartus II executables. There is one QSF for
each revision in the project.
Quartus II Workspace
File (.qws)
Contains user preferences and other information such
as the position of the windows, the open files and their
positions in the windows.
Quartus II Default Settings
File (.qdf)
Located in the \<Quartus II system directory>\bin
directory and contains all the global default project
settings. These settings are overridden by the settings
in the QSF.