About the Tasks Window

You open this dialog box by clicking Print on the File menu in the Quartus^® Prime Standard Edition software.You can also print messages in the Messages Window. Right-click in the window and then click Print.

The Tasks window allows you to use the tools and features of the Quartus^® Prime Standard Edition software and monitor their progress from a flow-based layout. Expand each section of the flow to use the tools best suited to that section of the design process. In the Existing Flow list, you can select one of the following default flows:

Compilation—Contains the tasks and tools for design compilation, timing analysis, and device programming.
Gate Level Simulation—Contains tasks to perform a gate level simulation.
RTL Simulation—Contains tasks to perform an RTL simulation.
Full Design—Contains the tasks and tools to start a project, create a design, assign constraints, compile it, and verify it.

The Taskcolumn displays progress as a percentage of completion. The Time column displays the time spent—in days (if the process takes longer than 24 hours to complete), hours, minutes, and seconds. You can click Customize to create your own flows in the Customize Flow dialog box. For example, you can use the Tcl Scriptsdialog box to create a custom flow that is actually a list of the Tcl scripts you use with your project.