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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

Hi guys,

A bit of topic but I need some help:

I recently updated to 17.1 from 17.0, and now the configuration is using JTAG instead of PR via PCIe.

Can't find documentation about this in the update, and "ACL_PCIE_USE_JTAG_PROGRAMMING=0" doesn't work.

Anyone know what's going on? Configuration via JTAG is so much slower than PCIe...