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9 years ago

Quartus Partition Merge Usage ?? What is the good and bad if turn it off?

Hi, Anyone knows what is the usage of partition merge in quartus cad flow. From the definition in quartus handbook chapter 3 "quartus ii incremental compilation for hierarchical and team-based ...
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9 years ago

You are correct. The idea is to have completed sections of the FPGA saved in partitions so that they don't need to be fitted every time the configuration is built. If you have a timing sensitive design partition that has already been verified, that verification doesn't need to be redone.