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JDlug
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5 years ago

Why is the build time of a simple project in Quartus Prime Pro so long?

Hello, For a very simple project, compilation process in "Quartus Prime Pro" for "Stratix 10" lasts about 10 minutes, while a compilation of the same project for "MAX 10" in Quartus Standard Edition...
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5 years ago

Hi Jacek,

Generally, there many ways you can change manually in order to speed the compilation process. Refer to link below for details. Document below shows configurations and steps depending on your need. Easily way for setting if you dont want to manually change it is to enable Aggressive Compile Time (Reduces the compile time required to implement the design with reduced effort and fewer performance optimizations). Go to Assignment --> Setting --> Compiler setting --> Optimization mode --> select (desired optimization mode,refer to link below for type of opt mode). Hopefully it helps.

https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/programmable/us/en/pdfs/literature/ug/ug-qpp-compiler.pdf

p60- Optimization mode

p84- Reducing compilation time

Thanks,

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5 years ago
Hi, I am sorry I forgot to write that I already tried: set_global_assignment -name OPTIMIZATION_MODE "AGGRESSIVE COMPILE TIME" and it didn't help with a simple testing project at all. But I didn't know about this PDF file. I'll check that out. Thank you. (jd)