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Quartus II Settings File Reference Manual - Altera

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6–312 Chapter 6: Fitter Assignments<br />

SEED<br />

SEED<br />

Type<br />

Specifies the starting value the Fitter uses when randomly determining the initial<br />

placement for the current design. The value can be any non-negative integer value.<br />

Changing the starting value may or may not produce better fitting. Specify a starting<br />

value only if the Fitter is not meeting timing requirements by a small amount. The<br />

Design Space Explorer tool lets you sweep many seed values easily to find the best<br />

value for a given project. Modifying the design or the <strong>Quartus</strong> <strong>II</strong> software settings<br />

even slightly usually changes which seed is best for the design.<br />

Integer<br />

Device Support<br />

This setting can be used in projects targeting any <strong>Altera</strong> device family.<br />

Notes<br />

This assignment is not copied when you create a companion revision for HardCopy <strong>II</strong><br />

devices.<br />

This assignment is included in the Fitter report.<br />

Syntax<br />

set_global_assignment -name SEED <br />

Default Value<br />

1<br />

Old Names<br />

This variable also has the following name(s) in some earlier versions of the <strong>Quartus</strong> <strong>II</strong><br />

software:<br />

INITIAL_PLACEMENT_CONFIGURATION<br />

<strong>Quartus</strong> <strong>Settings</strong> <strong>File</strong> June 2012 <strong>Altera</strong> Corporation<br />

<strong>Reference</strong> <strong>Manual</strong>

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