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James_B
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4 years ago

Turn On Netlist Viewers Warning with Netlist Viewers Enabled

I have a large design that is filling up 60% of a Cyclone V A9 device, and I have the option of "Run Netlist Viewers Preprocessing during compilation" turned on in the compilation process settings. ...
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sstrell
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4 years ago

Analysis & Elaboration is not really compilation. It's meant to quickly look at your design files, make sure there are no errors, and build the project hierarchy. You need to run full synthesis or the Fitter for this.

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    James_B
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    4 years ago

    There is not need to run the compilation to see the RTL view, in fact, that is what the RTL view is for.

    If you run synthesis, you will get synthesized netlist view, but you can still look at RTL view.

    The RTL view has extreme value for being able to see if all ports are properly connected between modules.

    There should not be a warning that the preprocessor needs to be turned on when it's turned on.

    If the gas gauge is full, there should not be a warning that the gas is nearly empty.