Quartus Reduce Compilation Time Settings

Last Updated for Quartus II 18.1.0


Megafunctions
  Set Generate Netlist to CHECKED.

Disable Advanced Fitter
  Assignments => Settings => Compiler Settings => Advanced Settings (Fitter)
  Set "Advanced Physical Optimization" to OFF.
  
Use Fast Fitter Effort  
  Assignments => Settings => Compiler Settings => Advanced Settings (Fitter)
  Set "Fitter Effort" to Fast Fit.

Never do Final Placement Optimizations
  Assignments => Settings => Compiler Settings => Advanced Settings (Fitter)
  Set "Final Placement Optimizations" to Never.
 
Never do Final Aggressive Routability Optimizations
  Assignments => Settings => Compiler Settings => Advanced Settings (Fitter)
  Set "Final Agreesive Routability Optimizations" to Never.

Enable Smart Compilation
  Assignments => Settings => Compilation Process Settings
  Set "Use smart compilation" to CHECKED.
  


(TESTING)
Advanced Fitter Settings > Optimize Timing > Off
Advanced Fitter Settings > Optimize Multi-Corner Timing > Off






# Quartus, gitignore

# ignore Quartus II generated folders
db/
incremental_db/
simulation/
timing/
testbench/
*_sim/
incremental_db/
greybox_tmp/
output_files/