Altera Quartus II Scripting - Manual (Page 237)

Chapter 3: Tcl Packages & Commands 3–107
incremental_compilation
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create_partition
Usage
create_partition -contents <hierarchy name> -partition <partition name>
Options
-contents <hierarchy name>: Partition contents (hierarchy assigned to Partition)
-partition <partition name>: Partition name
Description
Creates a partition, unless the partition specified with the -partition option already exists. The Quartus II
software creates a partition assignment to the specified hierarchy name.
Example
package require ::quartus::incremental_compilation
project_open my_design
## Create a partition on child:inst1
create_partition -partition my_partition -contents child:inst1
project_close