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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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Altera_Forum
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8 years ago

I've seen the estimates usually as an overestimate depending on how the kernel is structured. In 16.1/17.0 I've had estimates ~110% and the actual build around 60% particularly for memory blocks. DSPs aren't as quite wide as a gap, but I've found them to not be all that reliable for estimates until a full build is made so I have something to scale it against.