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16 years ago

Quartus Compilation took 4 hrs

Hi all, I am compiling a sample AES program from the book Design Recipes for FPGAs by Peter Wilson. However, it took four hours to compile the two files. Here's the message from Quartus ...
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16 years ago

Open You Quartus Project

Menue Assignments -> Settings

Compilation Process Settings

choose Parallel compilation . Use all available processors

enable Use smart compilation

Fitter Settings

Set fitter effort to Auto Fit

your system should be fast enough a Cyclone II EP2C70 design with ~70% usage is compiled here on a E8500 cpu within 50 minutes.

Is your project stored localy or via network ?