Elaboration of entities that are generated take very long time

This is the part that generates all the entities, ADDR_ARRAY and ACT_READ_ACCESS_IND_ARRAY are both arrays that define the configuration of the entities. ASYNC_IN_PORT_MAPPING and ASYNC_OUT_PORT_MAPPING are Arrays containing the signals that can be read or written by accessing the respective adresses. The whole thing basically defines a adressable registerbank. I know it could be done with a Dualport RAM, but for now we have this solution and need to speed the build process up.

  ASYNC_GEN:
  for i in 0 to (NBR_ASYNC_PORTS-1) generate
    async : entity work.IF_ASYNC_PORT_V2 
      generic map(
        ADDR => ADDR_ARRAY(i),
        ACT_READ_ACCESS_IND => ACT_READ_ACCESS_IND_ARRAY(i))
      port map(
        nRESET                => nRESET, 
        CLK                   => CLK, 
        CTRL                  => s_ctrl_clk, 
        DATA_IN               => s_em1d_in_clk,
        DATA_OUT              => EM1D, 
        nOE                   => nEM1OE,
        DATA_FPGA_TO_DSP      => ASYNC_IN_PORT_MAPPING(i), 
        DATA_DSP_TO_FPGA      => ASYNC_OUT_PORT_MAPPING(i),
        READ_ACCESS_INDICATOR => ASYNC_OUT_READ_ACC_INDICATOR(i)
        );
  end generate ASYNC_GEN;

Hi KhaiY

Yes and No... I haven't yet finished the tests with smaller arrays, so no I have no updates for the Moment regarding this. But I have interesting information from another end: I moved to another physical machine that is meant to be slower regarding the technical spec's. Surprisingly it is more than two times faster for this entity elaboration and about 1.5 times faster in the fitter step. I know I am not allowed to share detailed benchmark data (for whatever reason), but the VERY interessting fact is, that the Processor which takes so much longer in elaboration step is a Product from an Intel competitor. There are other messages in this forum and on other sites in the internet reporting the same observations. It would indeed be interesting to have an official statement from Intel regarding these difference.

Also i discovered, that turning off hyperthreading makes Quartus faster... Another fact where it might be interesting to have official information from Intel.

Best regards

Hello,

Thanks for pointing to these links. I tried all of them before and they did not help. I didn't expect a lot from them beforehand since they are greatly outdated anyway... Waiting for more helpful stuff from you Intel guys.

BR