Why does my Arria® V design fail to route even though the device is not fully utilized?

Description

Due to a problem in the Quartus® II software version 13.1 and earlier,  you may see that your Arria® V design fails to route when the device is not fully utilized. This problem occurs when a high fanout clock is incorrectly promoted to a regional clock net that restricts the placement of the destination logic to a quadrant of the device.

Resolution

To work around this problem, manually assign your clock to be global rather than regional using the assignment below:

set_instance_assignment -name GLOBAL_SIGNAL "GLOBAL CLOCK" -to "<clock name>"