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Altera_Forum
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8 years ago

Efficiency improvements after switching to 17.1 from 17.0

Just as an FYI: I noticed significant resource savings on the same code when switching to version 17,1 of the tool from version 17.0. I'm not sure if this is common for new releases of this tool but...
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8 years ago

Are you talking about actual resource utilization after placement and routing, or resource estimation provided by the compiler?

I am facing significant perfomance degradation (30%) and higher area utilization going from 16.1.2 to 17.0/17.1.