QuartusII: how to find out all the instances of a VHDL module in a design?

Thank you for your answer. Unfortunately, the Hierarchy tab doesn't show me where each module is instantiated... (I'm talking about QuartusII 6.0sp1, I don't know if in the previous versions the Hierarchy tab was different). Maybe my explanation wasn't so good, so I will try to make an example:

- suppose I have a design composed by 3 top-level blocks, named A, B and C (described as VHDL or schematic files);

- suppose in each block I instantiated two 8-bit counter modules, all corresponding to a unique VHDL file (let's name it count8bit.vhd)

In the Hierarchy tab I can expand one by one the tree under modules A, B and C and see that in each of them there are 2 instances of the "count8bit" entity. What I would like to do is the opposite: I'd like to select the count8.vhd module and see every instance of it in my design, so that I can locate the 2 instances in block A, the 2 in block B and the last 2 in block C. It would be very useful to me, I wonder if it's possible to do it with QuartusII because up to now I didn't find a way to do it.

Regards, Claudio

Sideway wrote:

I think I know, what you mean. Qaurtus shows the instances in the h-tab, but when clicking on it, Q jumps to the module. I do it that way, that I use cut&paste to copy the name of the module, jump to the former folder (upper level) and do a search for.

Another possibilty is to click on the item and chooes "Locate in design"

Thank you for the answer. I discussed with many people about this feature, and all of them confirmed to me that there isn't a straight way to do what I'd like to do. The only solution I've found is to use the Node Finder, typing the name of the module I want to find (remembering to always put aterisks before and after the module name, otherwise the search will fail), selecting "Design Entry (all names)" as filter and performing a search in the top-level module enabling the "Include subentities" option. A bit tricky, but it works... By the way, I hope that Altera will include a direct option like "List all instances of the selected module in the design", it could be really useful with large designs.

Regards, Claudio

alterauser wrote:

Claudio,

Thank you for your imput. It will be passed on to the correct folks so that it may be included in a future release.

Subroto Datta Altera Corp.