Generate Example Design (Generate Menu) (Platform Designer)

A selection of Altera IP cores include example designs that you can use or modify to replicate similar functionality in your own system. You must generate the example design HDL from the parameter editor before you can view or use the example.

The Example Design icon identifies cores that have example designs available for generation.

You access this command in the Quartus^® Prime IP parameter editor by clicking Generate > Generate Example Design If present, click the Example Design button in the parameter editor to generate the example design.

You access this command in Platform Designer by clicking Generate > Generate Example Design.You can add designs to the Example Designs list with the following Tcl command:

add_fileset my_example EXAMPLE_DESIGN "" "My Platform Designer Example"

This command adds the example design to the Example Designs list that appears when you point to the Generate Example Design command. Platform Designer creates a directory adjacent to the .qsys file, as follows:

<instance name> - My Platform Designer Example
<instance name>_my_example