Forum Discussion

Altera_Forum's avatar
Altera_Forum
Icon for Honored Contributor rankHonored Contributor
8 years ago

Quartus standard vs lite

Hi! I have question about the quartus synthesis speed. I have been using quartus lite but as the projects grow the synthesis times start to be rather annoying. So I decided to buy the lice...
Altera_Forum's avatar
Altera_Forum
Icon for Honored Contributor rankHonored Contributor
8 years ago

Using multiple cores does not give a 2x,3x speed up - I think the best you can expect is about 30% speed up. Fitting is not very multi thread friendly.

Where you do get the benefit is that it will generate the bitfile at the same time as timing analysis.