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10 years ago

Quartus fitter taking 2+ hours for NIOS design

Hello, I am attempting to setup a NIOS on a Cyclone V SOC and my compilation times are right around 2 hours total. The fitter gets stuck at 35% for most of this time. The interesting thin...
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What's the specs on the different machines?

It could be you are swapping on your work machine because it doesn't have enough memory.

I would also delete the db and incremental_db directories and try again. I've had problems in the past where it's fighting something based on an old incremental design.

Pete

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I ended up finding out that windows was running two instances of Quartus even though only one was open and available to me. I found this in the task managers process list. Once I killed all processes and re-opened Quartus, I built with no problems.

Thanks