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Altera_Forum
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8 years ago

running timing analysis without fitter first

Hi, whenever i initiate TimeQuest quartus seem to start by default the Fitter...is that a default operation or something is wrong in my project? I guess it should be feasible to just run synthe...
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8 years ago

On older device families (before the generation 10 devices, I believe), you can just synthesize your design, then manually select to create a post-map timing netlist in TimeQuest. On newer devices, I think you have to run the Fitter first all the time.