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hchoonke
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3 years ago
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Quartus 18 couldn't complete fitter with Ryzen 3990X

Hi I have a workstation using Ryzen 3970X Thread-ripper processor. I have no problem complete running the whole implementation from Synthesis to Fitter with Quartus 18.0.1. However, after the wo...
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    ShengN_altera
    3 years ago

    Hi,


    Do you have any further update or concern?


    Thanks,


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ShengN_altera
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3 years ago

Hi,


Advanced Physical Optimization is the global placement engine (it is a required part of the compilation flow for all Quartus Prime Pro Edition families).


Check this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_multithreading under Disadvantages section:

Depending on the design and architecture of the processor, simultaneous multithreading can decrease performance if any of the shared resources are bottlenecks for performance.


Seems like Quartus needs more cores to compile. Try use 16 for Maximum processor allowed. If still can't be resolved, then probably have to disabled the Symetric Multithreading (SMT) option.


Thanks,

Best regards,

Sheng

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