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Chapter 1: Nios II Hardware Development
Creating the Design Example
Nios II Hardware Development Tutorial
May 2011
Altera Corporation
To ensure the design meets timing, perform the following steps:
1. On the File menu, click
Open
.
2. In the
Files of type
list, select
Script Files (*.tcl, *.sdc, *.qip)
.
3. Browse to locate
<design files directory>
/hw_dev_tutorial.sdc
and click
Open
. The
file opens in the text editor.
4. Locate the following
create_clock
command:
create_clock -name sopc_clk -period 20 [get_ports PLD_CLOCKINPUT]
5. Change the period setting from 20 to the clock period (1/frequency) in
nanoseconds of the oscillator driving the clock pin.
6. On the File menu, click
Save
.
7. On the Assignments menu, click
Settings
. The
Settings
dialog box appears.
8. Under
Category
, click
TimeQuest Timing Analyzer
.
shows the
TimeQuest Timing Analyzer
page of the
Settings
dialog box.
9. Next to
File name
, click the browse (
...
) button.
10. Browse to locate
<design files directory>
/hw_dev_tutorial.sdc
and click
Open
to
select the file.
Figure 1–18. TimeQuest Timing Analyzer Settings