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Altera_Forum
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13 years ago

Improve Quartus II Compilation time (hardware)

Hello my design is taking a long time to compile and i need to improve it. My computer is an i5 with 4gigs of ram. I am thinking about buying a computer with two xeon processors, will it decr...
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13 years ago

Unless things have changed in 12, Quartus uses only one processor when real work is being done (fitting for example). I have 6 cores and only one of them gets heavily used. So, buy the fastest processor you can get with the most cache. A lot or RAM does not hurt either.

I assume that dividing the fitting process into multiple threads is still an illusive problem for Altera (and others).