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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

Don't give up hope yet. Multicore processors are the way of the future (and the present). We are working on paralllelizing more and more of Quartus with each release. While it takes time to get appreciable gains, we're reaching the point where the multi-threaded compile gains are substantial.

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Paul Leventis

Altera Corp.