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Hoolabandoola
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10 months ago

Can you analyze the bitstream icpx builds in Quartus?

The icpx tool can use Quartus to synthesize a bitstream which you can load on an FPGA. While doing so it produces some html reports. But those are pre-synthesis and often not enough to analyze perfor...
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10 months ago

Hi @Hoolabandoola,

The icpx tool can run Quartus, if you use the "FPGA Hardware Image" compilation flow documented here:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/docs/oneapi-fpga-add-on/developer-guide/2025-0/fpga-compilation-flags.html

In that case, the html reports will be updated with post-Quartus resource utilization and clock frequency information, as described here:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/docs/oneapi-fpga-add-on/developer-guide/2025-0/quartus-static-summary.html

I hope this helps!

Jessica

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10 months ago

I'm aware of the html reports. However, they aren't very informative when it comes to post synthesis issues. For example, I have an OpenCL kernel that causes Quartus to run out of resources while synthesizing and I would like to know why.