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16 years ago

Will Quartus generate same timing results if a build is run twice?

If a design is P&R with Quartus, will it give same timing result for two builds if no parameter is changed for either build? No RTL change, no SDC change, no SEED change. I would think it shou...
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16 years ago

Yes. There are no random variables that go into the compile, so the results will be the same. (Operating Systems will affect it though, due to different floating point math results. All Windows should be the same, but different than Linux compiles. Same thing as a different seed though, i.e. one is not better than the other.)