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12 years ago

Fast Synthesis & Analysis QUARTUS II

Dear all, I am new to Quartus II 13.1 , when I implement my logic(considerable big custom IP) tool is taking about 15 hours to complete Analysis & Synthesis part. I enabled i. Smart Compil...
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12 years ago

Long synthesis times are usually because you have some ram (sounds like a lot of ram) being implemented in logic. Does your design use a lot of ram? how are you implementing it?

I had a complex design for a stratix 4 take 40 mins for synthesis, and that is the longest synth I have ever seen. If I ever see more than this, then I know there is a problem in the design.