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14 years ago

What's the meaning of partition for incremental compile

In the material named Fast Path to Your Design published by ALTERA,what is the meaning of partition in Compare Full compile and incremental compile setion?There is a clip image as attachment. ...
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14 years ago

Partitioning allows the user to identify related sub-segments or hierarchies of the design and if nothing has changed in that sub-segment, it allows the compiler to re-use the previous results down to the routing if you specify it.

This allows the compilation to work much faster, however can have some negative side effects if done improperly.

It works best when you have a large design that you are only working on a small piece of the hierarchy.

Pete