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Super ContributorWhat device are you targeting with this? For something this complicated, I can only imagine it's the newest device supported in Standard, which would be Arria 10 but I'm pretty sure it's not supported in Lite.
You say the same thing is happening in a licensed copy of Standard. Did you check the processor usage there? I don't think multicore support is available in Lite. Why are you using Lite if you have a Standard license?
Is there anything unique about your design, a certain IP (encrypted or unencrypted) being used? Have you tried simplifying the design to see if it compiles?
Something strange is going on here.
Occasional ContributorPlease do your research before responding to the thread.
This is for a Cyclone V, which is apart of the Terasic lineup of Boards, the DE1-SoC.
All versions of Quartus, including Lite, Standard and Pro all have multiprocessor support.
I checked the processor usage in both AMD Ryzen Master, and Taskmanager. All of those lists just one processor usage. It may however toggle between 2 logical processors but it will never use more than 2 or more processors at any point in time, even though I permit Quartus to use 8 cores. If you or anyone else can prove anything to the contrary, please post screenshots with just Quartus running.
I can't take a snapshot when Quartus crashes, but the latest details is that I view next to 90+% memory usage and within 8 hours Quartus will exit or crash but Quartus never gives me an error message before it aborts. We are talking about more than 120 GB of Ram here, and Quartus will consume all of it.
I'm not using encryption in my design.
This is just not acceptable to have Quartus exit, crash, or abort with no error messages, and Quartus appears to me not to support multi-threaded CPU compilations. Finally, I once again limited Quartus not to use more than 16GB and it uses more than 100GB.
