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To use the Design Assistant to analyze and generate messages for an ACEX^® 1K, APEX^™ 20K, APEX^™ II, ARM^®-based Excalibur^™, Cyclone^™, FLEX^® 6000, FLEX 10KE, Mercury^™, Stratix^™, or Stratix^™ GX design:

1. If you have not already done so, create a new project or open an existing project.

2. If you have not already done so, specify Compiler settings for a supported design.

3. Choose Settings (Assignments menu).  Shortcut

4. In the Category list, select Design Assistant under Compiler Settings.

5. In the Design Assistant rules list, turn on the Design Assistant rule(s) you want the Design Assistant to apply to the design when analyzing and generating messages for the design.

6. If you turned on Nodes with high fan-out, Report all nodes with more than <n> fan-outs, and/or Report top <n> nodes with the highest fan-out in the Design Assistant rules list, specify the nodes you want the Design Assistant to report:

   1. In the Design Assistant rules list, select Nodes with high fan-out under Timing closure.

   2. Click Advanced.

   3. In the High-Fanout Net Settings dialog box, to specify the number of fan-outs above which you want the Design Assistant to report nodes, type the number in the Report all nodes with more than <n> fan-outs box.

   4. To specify the maximum number of high-fanout nodes you want the Design Assistant to report, type the number in the Report top <n> nodes with the highest fan-out box.

   5. Click OK.

7. Click OK.

8. If you want the Design Assistant to perform a post-fitting analysis on the current design, compile the design.  More Details

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   If you want the Design Assistant to perform a post-synthesis analysis on the current design, perform an analysis and synthesis on the design.  More Details

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   If you already compiled or performed an analysis and synthesis on the design, and you want to perform a post-fitting or post-synthesis analysis on the design, choose Start > Start Design Assistant (Processing menu).  Shortcut  More Details

To stop the Design Assistant:

Choose Stop Processing (Processing menu).  Shortcut

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