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21 years ago

Quartus II Compiler Speed?

I am re-compiling nios II "Full Featured" reference design for Altera C12 Ev. Kit on a Dell 2.4GHz P4 CPU. It took 40 min. with only 40% done. Is this normal? Thanks
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21 years ago

Very good suggestions!

I will purchase a higher end PC with faster CPU/bus speed and more memory.

I found "optimization" under "assignments"-> "settings"->"Fitter settings". The default "Normal" setting takes 2~3 times compile time of "Fast" setting.

I will use "Fast" setting for early stages of design and use higher optimization later.