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10 years ago

Quartus Partition Post Fit preservation

Hello all, Quartus preserve post fit of over 80% of my design but compilation time.. is like a new compilation from scratch.. (1:30h) Info (171004): Fitter is performing a Standard Fit com...
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10 years ago

I've seen similar behavior on few designs and different Quartus versions. Quartus uses disproportionate amount of time in the preservation and partition merging stages. It takes less time doing build from scratch than using partition (designs that take 30min - 2.5hrs to build)