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Altera_Forum
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11 years ago

How does the compilation process work?

I have a question regarding the compilation process. Considering a multi-layer hierarchically hardware description, how does Quartus handle the compilation? Does it unwrap all layers and then...
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11 years ago

It goes through several processes

First, it converts all of your code to altera units, like altsyncram, adders, multipliers etc.

then it maps all of these to luts and individual rams.

then it places all these base units onto the die.