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10 years ago

Incremental Compilation and SignalTap

Hi all, My understanding is that we cannot preserve the placement & routing if we create a new partition under the top-level design (which is a partition by default). In this case, how does the...
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10 years ago

Did you try Post Fit Placement only to see if that fits? There will be some variability due to re-routing the design, but it's much smaller than doing a full place-and-route from scratch. Or run a few seeds from scratch with SignalTap in there. Hopefully one of them exhibits the problem. Now that STP is in there, it also might be easier to change your tap points and do Post-Fit on the rest(although I don't know why it's not fitting, so can't say for sure one way or the other).