Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition: Version 22.1 Software and Device Support Release Notes

ID 683706
Date 4/04/2022
Public

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1.1. New Features and Enhancements

Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition Software Version 22.1 includes functional and security updates. Keep your software up-to-date and follow the technical recommendations that help improve the security of your Intel® Quartus® Prime installation.

New Intel® Quartus® Prime GUI Features and Enhancements

  • Added ability to monitor a compilation that was launched from the command line.
  • Added new GUI options to switch easily between fast compilation for fMAX estimation for on-chip debugging and longer compilation for closing timing.

New Synthesis Features and Enhancements

  • Added Verilog Macro Usage report
  • Enhanced warning messages to include the ability to locate warning in source files.
  • Enhanced register duplication.
  • Enhanced RAM inference

New Compiler Features and Enhancements

  • Added command-line options to switch easily between fast compilation for fMAX estimation or on-chip debugging and longer compilation for closing timing.

New Timing Analyzer Features and Enhancements

  • Improved timing analysis reporting and commands:
    • Added Clock Network Viewer
    • Enhanced Report Register Spread to include area and angle spread types.
    • Enhanced Report Timing by Source to include grouping paths by containing entity, grouping entities by containing file, and the sum of negative slacks (path TNS) with in a file or entity.
    • Enhanced Report Timing Tree to include sum of negative slacks (path TNS) for a node hierarchy.
    • Added Report Metastability.
    • Added Global Router Congestion Hotspot Summary report

New Design Assistant Features and Enhancements

  • Added new linting design rule checks (DRCs) for early checks in flows for Intel® Stratix® 10 and Intel® Agilex™ devices.

New Signal Tap Logic Analyzer Features and Enhancements

  • Enhanced node list GUI with ability to add dividers to organize your signals in the list into groups.

New Advanced Link Analyzer Features and Enhancements

  • Improved COM/ERL supports

New Power and Thermal Calculator Features and Enhancements

  • Enhanced Power rails pane to show only power rails with non-zero current.
  • Enhanced Power and Thermal Calculator Report to show only power rails with non-zero current.

New Nios® V Processor Features and Enhancements

  • Enhanced Nios® V/m processor with µC/TCP-IP stack support, including two new example designs that demonstrate the use of this stack.

Bug Fixes

Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition Software Version 22.1 also includes bug fixes. Review Software Issues Resolved and Software Patches Included in this Release to see if this version contains fixes for or otherwise resolves any of your customer service requests.