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Altera_Forum
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8 years ago

get the fitter to stop after placement (i.e. not do routing)

Hi, does anybody know how to get the fitter to place a design but not route it? I'd like to sweep across a bunch of fitter seeds and dump out the placement (using backannotation to produce set_...
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8 years ago

As far as I know, the only way to do this currently is to use Quartus Prime Pro Edition with an Arria 10 device. The Compilation Dashboard includes a multi-stage Fitter to allow for optimizations at each stage of the process, including before routing.