Quartus® Prime Standard Edition User Guide: Design Compilation

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Date 10/22/2021
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3.8.6. Preserving Combinational Logic Names

You can preserve certain combinational logic node names for verification or debugging, or to ensure that timing assignments are applied correctly.

Use the keep attribute to keep a wire name or combinational node name through logic synthesis minimizations and netlist optimizations.

For any internal node in your design clock network, use keep to protect the name so that you can apply correct clock settings. Also, set the attribute for combinational logic involved in cut and -through assignments.

Note: Setting the keep attribute for combinational logic can increase the area utilization and increase the delay of the final mapped logic because the attribute requires the insertion of extra combinational logic. Use the attribute only when necessary.