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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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6 years ago

Oops.... I discovered that I didn't delete the setup folder where I extracted all the Quartus install files.... I'm trying out what effect removing that will have, hopefully I can get a docker image in the 10-20GByte size.

Other than that I rummaged through the Quartus install folders. I don't think I need the "nios2eds" folder in bold but there doesn't appear to be an installation option to exclude it, so I will try to delete them to see what happens.

/opt/intelFPGA_pro/19.3# du -hs * | sort -h

[deleted]

46M qsys

3.3G ip

3.7G nios2eds

7.6G quartus

/opt/intelFPGA_pro/19.3# cd quartus/

/opt/intelFPGA_pro/19.3/quartus# du -hs * | sort -h

[deleted]

47M sopc_builder

57M dspba

84M libraries

2.1G common

2.1G linux64

3.3G eda

/opt/intelFPGA_pro/19.3/quartus# cd common/

/opt/intelFPGA_pro/19.3/quartus/common# du -hs * | sort -h

[deleted]

2.0G devinfo