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OHarb1
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6 years ago

Speeding up Quartus P&R in the cloud

I'm running Quartus P&R in the Google Cloud inside a Docker image and I'd like to speed it up. Especially I'd like to speed up the startup times. The speed of launching P&R is critical, as any hard...
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JoEl
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6 years ago

Hi OHarb1,

as of I know you can install just one device/family needed (ie you dont need cyclon/stratix/agilex devices, this can save few gigs) : \intelFPGA_pro\19.3\quartus\common\devinfo\cyclone10gx -then few of 20nm familysince you use just one...

PS: Might I ask question? we want to work with similar device, how full your design is? Durration 3,5 hour seems like our old design with 10AX48 (Arria10 480) which is approx. half of resources but it was filled more than 60% of logic and almost all memory blocks.

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OHarb1
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6 years ago

I'm cooking a new Docker image now with only Arria devices and I also excluded something called "devinfo"(I don't know what it does, couldn't find anything on Google about it).

Our design is currently ~40% full for this Arria 10 part and this is with a VERY low fMax constraint.

Before I start to try to push our design, I want the P&R in the cloud process to be optimized.