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Locking Your Pinouts

You can lock pins from either the Project Navigator or the Design Manager. When you execute the Lock Pins function, the program appends the pinout from a completed design to the end of the project's UCF file. Whenever the fitter is run again, the program will use the pinout from the UCF file.

Locking Pinouts from Project Navigator

You may lock pins after running the fitter by selecting the device icon in the Sources window and double-clicking on the Lock Pins icon in the Processes window. This will take the pinout from the last successful fitting results and append it to the project's UCF file. The Lock Pins Report is displayed showing any conflicts that may have occurred.

Locking Pinouts from Design Manager

1. Select a successfully fit design revision in the Design Manager. Then select Design -> Lock Pins. A dialog box will appear.

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2. Click Yes. The Design Manager will append the pinout from the selected design revision to the end of the UCF file and give you the option of viewing the pins report.

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3. To view the lock pins report, click View Lock Pins Report. The Lock Pins Report shows any conflicts that may have occurred.


See Also

Assigning Pins in ABEL

Assigning Pins in VHDL or Verilog

Assigning Pins Manually

Manual Pin Assignment Precautions

Prohibiting Pin assignment in UCF file