Fitter can't fit a small design in Cyclone V SE that fits in a much smaller Cyclone IV device
Hi,
When I try to compile a design for a Cyclone V 5CSEMA5 that works perfectly on a much smaller Cyclone IV, the fitter says:
Info (170195): Router estimated average interconnect usage is 2% of the available device resources Info (170196): Router estimated peak interconnect usage is 25% of the available device resources in the region that extends from location X22_Y0 to location X32_Y10 Critical Warning (188026): The Fitter failed to successfully route the design. You may be able get this design to route by making design modifications, changing the fitter seed or by enabling the Fitter Aggressive Routability Optimizations logic option. Info (188027): The highest placement effort tried by the fitter during this compile was: 2 Error (170143): Final fitting attempt was unsuccessful Info (170138): Failed to route the following 18 signal(s) Info (170139): Signal "...:_VGA_Controller|X[2]" Info (170139): Signal "...:_VGA_Controller|X[11]" Info (170139): Signal "...:_VGA_Controller|DrawLine_To_X[6]" ... Info (170140): Cannot fit design in device -- following 21 routing resource(s) needed by more than one signal during the last fitting attempt Info (170141): Routing resource LAB Block interconnect (X33_Y17, I10) ... Info (170141): Routing resource LAB Input (X30_Y18, I7) ... Info (170141): Routing resource LAB Internal Resource (X30_Y18, I3) ...
Used ressources are:
Logic utilization (in ALMs) 2,010 / 41,910 ( 5 % ) Total registers 1770 Total pins 70 / 457 ( 15 % ) Total virtual pins 0 Total block memory bits 24,576 / 5,662,720 ( < 1 % ) Total DSP Blocks 8 / 112 ( 7 % ) Total HSSI RX PCSs 0 Total HSSI PMA RX Deserializers 0 Total HSSI TX PCSs 0 Total HSSI PMA TX Serializers 0 Total PLLs 2 / 6 ( 33 % ) Total DLLs 0 / 4 ( 0 % )
and the routing summary that fitter reports is (HPS isn't used at all):
| Block interconnects | 7,585 / 289,320 ( 3 % ) |
| C12 interconnects | 88 / 13,420 ( < 1 % ) |
| C2 interconnects | 2,784 / 119,108 ( 2 % ) |
| C4 interconnects | 1,729 / 56,300 ( 3 % ) |
| DQS bus muxes | 0 / 25 ( 0 % ) |
| DQS-18 I/O buses | 0 / 25 ( 0 % ) |
| DQS-9 I/O buses | 0 / 25 ( 0 % ) |
| Direct links | 698 / 289,320 ( < 1 % ) |
| Global clocks | 3 / 16 ( 19 % ) |
| Horizontal periphery clocks | 0 / 72 ( 0 % ) |
| Local interconnects | 838 / 84,580 ( < 1 % ) |
| Quadrant clocks | 0 / 66 ( 0 % ) |
| R14 interconnects | 537 / 12,676 ( 4 % ) |
| R14/C12 interconnect drivers | 599 / 20,720 ( 3 % ) |
| R3 interconnects | 4,202 / 130,992 ( 3 % ) |
| R6 interconnects | 5,758 / 266,960 ( 2 % ) |
| Spine clocks | 9 / 360 ( 3 % ) |
| Wire stub REs | 0 / 15,858 ( 0 % ) |
The design works perfect on a much smaller device, e.g., EP4CE6E22. So it doesn't seem to be a problem of resources, but I have no idea what the error message "following 21 routing resource(s) needed by more than one signal during the last fitting attempt" exactly means and what I could do to get it compiled on the Cyclone V.
I already changed the fitter initial placement seed and the fitter aggressive routability optimizations option as suggested by the critical warning message. Complete message log attached.
Are there any suggestions?
Regards
Gunar