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10 years ago

Quartus Prime Arria 10 synthesis and PC memory utilization

I'm just starting to play with Quartus Prime (15.1.2) I have a legacy Stratix V design that I've ported to Arria 10. After kicking off synthesis, Quartus eventually spawns 7 instances of ...
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10 years ago

I tried reducing the number of processor cores (default setting is to use all available cores) and that seemed to help. I reduced it from 12 cores to 4. Synthesis completed about 25% faster and used much less memory (51 GB peak virtual memory), and also spawned fewer processes (5 instead of 7). Interesting...