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18 years ago

How to improve QuartusII compile time

Hi, I am Altera Dist. FAE. This specific costumer is suffering from long compile time (5 hours) for a design on StratixII180, 70% utilization. QuartusII version is 7.1. In genera...
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18 years ago

Going from 32 bits to 64 bits will be slower as the instructions are longer.

I also use a startix2 180,

And the best speed (at a reasonable price) you can get for the moment is having a pc

with win xp 32 bits, 3 GB of ram, 2 fast sata harddisk drive in parallel (raid 0),

and a core2duo cpu (e6600).