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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

If you have a multiprocessor machine take note of the setting "Maximum processors allowed for parallel compilation" under "Assignments / Settings / Compilation Process Settings". This defaults to one, so QuartusII will not take advantage of multiple processors unless you increase this number (up to the available number of processors).