Quartus II Settings File Reference Manual - Altera

5–12 Chapter 5: Incremental Compilation Assignments
PARTITION_HIERARCHY
PARTITION_HIERARCHY
Type
The target of the assignment specifies the hierarchy path of the entity instance for the
partition. The value of the assignment specifies the base output filename for writing
intermediary atom netlists. Altera recommends that you rely on the default output
filenames generated by the Quartus II software. If you decide to provide your own
filenames, you must ensure their uniqueness among partitions.
File name
Device Support
This setting can be used in projects targeting the following device families:
■ Arria GX
■ Cyclone
■ Cyclone II
■ HardCopy II
■ MAX II
■ MAX V
■ Stratix
■ Stratix GX
■ Stratix II
■ Stratix II GX
Notes
The value of this assignment is case sensitive.
Syntax
set_global_assignment -name PARTITION_HIERARCHY -entity -
section_id
set_instance_assignment -name PARTITION_HIERARCHY -to -entity -section_id
set_global_assignment -name PARTITION_HIERARCHY -entity
set_instance_assignment -name PARTITION_HIERARCHY -to -entity
Old Names
This variable also has the following name(s) in some earlier versions of the Quartus II
software:
INCREMENTAL_DESIGN_PARTITION
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