Section 1: Create a Project

The Quartus II software offers a New Project wizard to help you create a new project. You can subsequently edit these project settings using menu commands and dialog boxes. To create a new project using the New Project Wizard, follow these steps:

  1. Choose New Project Wizard (File menu). The New Project Wizard appears. The first time you open the New Project Wizard, it may display the Introduction page; you can click Next to proceed to the first page of the wizard.

  2. Type the directory name in the working directory box, or select the directory with Browse (...). For this example, type d:\qdesigns\fir_filter or browse to select it.

  3. Type a name for the project in the project name box. For this example, type fir_filter.

  4. Type filtref as the name of the top-level design entity of the project in the top-level design entity box.

  5. NOTE By default, the project name you enter appears as the name of the top-level design entity. However, you can use a different top-level design entity name, as this step directs you to do.

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    New Project Wizard Page 1

  6. Click Next. The Add Files page of the New Project Wizard appears. Because fir_filter is a new project, there are no files to add to this project yet. If design files already existed for this project, you could use Browse (...) to select the files, and then click Add to add them to the project.

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    Project Wizard Page 2

  8. Click Next. The EDA Tool Settings page of the New Project wizard appears. This page allows you to specify options for other EDA tools for use with this project. Since this project does not use other EDA tools, make sure that None is specified in the Tool name column for each tool type.

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    New Project Wizard EDA Settings Page

    New Project Wizard EDA Settings Page

  10. To accept the default settings for the remaining wizard prompts and create the project, click Finish. The project is now created. The top-level design entity name appears in the Hierarchies tab of the Project Navigator window.

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    Hierarchies Tab of Project Navigator


To continue the tutorial, proceed to Section 2: Create a Block Diagram.