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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

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OpenCL timing is all handled by the BSP. Are you creating a custom BSP?

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Yes, we have. Our company has integrated our IP with Intel OpenCL BSP of a10_ref but with 2 banks of DDR4. I would not be brave to say that the timing is handled by BSP though. We have a custom flow where we specify the timing of our IP and OpenCL kernels. BTW the timing has changed a lot from 16.x to 17.x tools for the better.