Wrong resource usage for MAX V design - Wrong resource usage for MAX V design
Hello, I'm performing a feasibility study for a custom project and I need to estimate the resource usage of a test design on a MAX V device: 5M160ZE64I5. I've never used MAX V, I've experience with Cyclone V devices only. I don't understand why the fitter report doesn't change when I add, remove or edit my VHDL code. I also added a QSYS design with SPI slave and few Avalon MM peripherals but the fitter report doesn't change and shows always a success. For example, I always get 44/160 (28%) logic elements, even If I add a signal generated by a process with a 64 bit counter... Also, in the "Resource Utilization by Entity" report tab I see ONLY the top level entity. With Cyclone V and other designs I could see all the entities with the associated resource utilization. Since the design is very simple, I wrote an SDC file with a clock definition and false paths for the I/Os. The pins are correctly assigned in the Pin Planner. Can someone tell me what can I check to solve this issue? Am I missing something? Thank you!
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Re: Wrong resource usage for MAX V design
Yes, that's just it! Since it is a test design some entity outputs weren't connected... The weird thing is also a PIO and an SPI Slave to Avalon Master IP cores are optimized away with no reason. Both IPs have I/Os connected to I/O pads and are linked together with an Avalon bus. Anyway, thanks to led me towards an explanation of this phenomenon.
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Another possible situation that your design had been optimized away. You can look for the analysis report to get those information
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If you're only seeing the top-level entity in the report, perhaps the rest of the files have not been added to the project. Go to Project->Add/Remove Files and make sure all the files that make up the project are added.
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Re: Wrong resource usage for MAX V design
I forgot to add that I'm currently using Quartus 18.1.0 build 625. - 2020-09-21
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