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14 years ago

big design uses few resources

I compiled a design a few days ago with a Compilation Report like this: Combinational ALUTs 52,437 Memory ALUTs 0 dedicated logic registers 31,310 T...
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14 years ago

Add a one bit output PIO to your system and assign the output to a virtual pin using the assignment editor. If you need to configure your design into a device then you'll need to assign that PIO to a real pin (cut the output path since this is a dummy connection as far as you are concerned)

There are preserve attributes that Quartus uses to preserve logic instead of optimizing nets away however this won't work in your case because Nios II is encrypted (plus it would be a lot of work too:))