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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

We've seen the greatest improvement in build time by moving to the fastest memory you can afford.

We ran several benchmarks builds using a core i7 2600 overclocked to 4.1GHz and several different standard memory modules (PC3-10600, PC3-12800, PC3-14900).

Overclocking the CPU made a marginal improvement on the build time. Overclocking the memory also improved the build time.

By going from a standard core i7 2600 at 3.4GHz with PC3-10600 to overclocking the core i7 to 4.1GHz and swapping out the memory for PC3-14900 (also slightly overclocked), we took our 218 minute build down to around 73 minutes.

On a side note, running the build in command line mode also improves the build time.