What is an Intellectual Property (IP) cores?

An IP core is a custom user-defined hardware design block that is intended to be add to Platform Designer system.

Intelectual components (IP) are custom user-defined blocks that allow for fast and easy interconnection of a .qsys design.

Types of IP cores

The following are posible types of IP components that exist in Quartus.

• Basic functions
• Interface protocols
• Bridges and adapters
• Low power functions
• DSP functions
• Memory interfaces and controllers
• Intel FPGA interconnect
• Processors and peripherals

IP Catalog

The IP catalog IP is the tab where an IP core can be search, add, edit or delete. Quartus includes a great variety of IP cores that can be used for the system. This are organized in categories, and new categories can be created for new IP cores.