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21 years agoYikes! 128MB. That is definately why. Quartus place & route is very processor/memory intensive. It gets progressively worse as you push your design clock speed requirements up and start to fill the chip with logic. The actual place & route operation is too deep for my understanding, but from what I understand Altera employs many talented engineers to get the most out of this.
Here is an excerpt of system requirements from the Quartus readme file:Installation & Operating Requirements
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Altera recommends the following system configuration:
* Pentium II 400 with 512-MB system memory (faster systems give
better software performance) My desktop here at work has 1GB RAM and it is adequate... heck my home PC uses more RAM when I am doing photoshop work on my digital camera photos.