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Altera_Forum
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17 years ago

An error about quartus_map.exe

Hi, When compiling a design ,I encouter an error : Out of memory in module quartus_map.exe(2127 megabytes used). Does it mean the memory of my computer is not enough for quartus to fulfill ...
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17 years ago

Yes your design is too large for the amount of RAM you have.

On 32-bit windows, I think processes are limited to about 2GB of memory even if the computer has 4GB. The only way to use more memory is therefore to get 64-bit windows.