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roeekalinsky
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5 years ago

Extremely inefficient Quartus Standard elaboration of VHDL function call tree conditional branches

Elaboration in Quartus Standard Edition is extremely inefficient in its processing of VHDL function call trees, taking an extremely long time with VHDL function call trees that have many conditional ...
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SyafieqS
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5 years ago

Hi Roee,


Noted. Ill try to replicate the issue first and will keep you posted.


Thanks,

Regards


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Engenre
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5 years ago

Please provide an update on this issue. A small change to an existing project has now ballooned my run time to beyond 1 week and counting! This is a real problem that I need resolved ASAP.

Thanks!

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    roeekalinsky
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    5 years ago

    On 2021-04-07 I received the following email from Intel Customer Support. I'm not sure if the individual behind the email was @SyafieqS or someone else:

    > Hi Roe,
    >
    > Apologize for the long silence on this. I can replicate the issue and had file
    > an enhancement for this. Note that engineering is working on more priority
    > case and this can take sometime for improvement. Let me know if there is any
    > other concern on this and will feedback this to developer.
    >
    > Thanks,
    > Regards

    To which I replied:

    > Hi, and thanks for the update. I'm sorry to hear that this kind of issue is
    > not deemed to be a high priority. Can you please provide a time frame for
    > when this issue will be addressed by engineering given the current
    > prioritization? This will affect strategic decisions with an important client
    > as to whether or not we continue to include Quartus Standard and legacy Altera
    > devices as supported targets for our IP portfolio. Please let me know.
    >
    > Thanks,
    > -Roee

    To date I have not received a response.