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9 years ago

How to improve compilation process on Quartus II Web Edition

Dear sirs. First of all, thank you for your time. I am using Quartus II Web Edition 15.0 and the time of compilation it is about 3 minutes with a simple code example. I am using Windows 7 (6...
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9 years ago

At least 16GB or preferably 32GB of DRAM (to act as disk buffer storage). A fast SSD or PCIE disk will also make a big difference.

I have a Win7 64b XEON with 8 cores (altho the web edition does not use more than 2 cores IIRC) and 64GB of DRAM and a 1GB hybrid flash / magnetic disk.

On a reasonably complex Cyclone IV design under web 16.0 it takes 2:35 start of compile to end of bit config file generation.