Altera .pin File

Altera produces the .pin file as the report showing pin usage and configuration as a result of the user design. This file is analogous to the Xilinx .pad file, and in used by PartBuilder along with the Pins.txt file for the Altera Logical Flow to build a symbol with the actual pin names from the design. Figure 12 shows a snippet of the .pin file resulting from an Altera design using a part from their Quartus II family.

Figure 12: Altera .pin report file for a Quartus II design